Principal Software Engineer, Backend,Distributed Systems (Prisma Cloud)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

We are seeking an excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem solving skills. The candidate should possess  hands-on experience with developing applications for distributed systems and high scalability designs. 

Your Impact

• Familiar with AWS and/or GCP/Azure and experience working on Big data computing like RDS, and open source databases MySQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch and others a big plus
• Responsible for complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code (cloud backend) that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions
• Develop solid understanding and be able to explain Cloud Computing concepts to others

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Advanced level of experience building microservices in java using spring boot framework
• Experience in designing and building low latency REST API’s for distributed systems
• Experience with open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Experience with queue technology like Kafka and/or RabbitMQ
• Hands-on experience with relational SQL and/or no-SQL technologies
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Splunk etc
• Strong passion and experience in troubleshooting, debugging complex systems and possess excellent problem-solving techniques
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Management, or equivalent work experience or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

The Prisma Cloud Platform Engineering Team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We are building the next generation Platform that will help the customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best-in-class protection. 

The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises leverage public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in public cloud. Palo Alto Networks is the market leader in this space.  

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be betw