Principal Software Engineer (ML/Backend - Java, Python - DLP)

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.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career

Bring your backend java engineering skills to work on the latest cloud software/web applications. Help us deploy and scale the next generation of cloud security utilizing big data and analytics. We are looking for an Engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Our DLP service is the industry's first cloud-delivered Enterprise DLP that consistently protects sensitive data across all networks, clouds and users. This fast-growing cloud service prevents data breaches by identifying sensitive data consistently throughout the entire enterprise. It also guarantees that your data security strategy adheres to compliance and data privacy regulations. This role will also give you an unrivaled opportunity to build micro services to process terabytes of data efficiently with different cloud providers.

Your Impact

• Partner with data scientists / ML engineers  to operationalize machine learning models, integrating them into scalable production systems
• Implement automated ML pipelines and optimized performance across data ingestion, model serving, and inference workflows
• Execute on the software development strategy to improve our dynamic highly distributed system
• Understand and implement software development/engineering lifecycle concepts to drive features from conception to delivery
• Collaborate closely with the product management, architects and devops to achieve quality releases
• Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success
• Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Interview, mentor and coach new team members

Principal Software Engineers are:

• Hands-on engineers who can code and build great products
• Technical experts who help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Experts who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains
• Engineers who willingly work with others towards common goals, understands the responsibilities, activities, and ways to foster relationships
• Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo Alto Networks culture
• Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers
• Members of the team who deeply understands customers' needs by doing the research to develop insight into their needs and desires
• Engineers who have the ability to make complex ideas simple; consistent focus on usability and scalability

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 10+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• Solid experience of backend development using Java, Spring Boot, J2EE, and cloud-native platforms like GCP or AWS, Kubernetes and Docker
• ​​Strong experience and knowledge with micro services, distributed systems, and performance optimization
• Proven track record of successful architecture and design for high transactions and data volume in enterprise and/or consumer facing applications
• Experience with Agile development process and embrace Agile methodologies
• Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
• Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building Cloud Security products
• Experience building products with ML/AI techniques will be a big plus
• Experience to develop APIs (REST) based project using and experience with JSON
• Experience in NoSQL DB (Mongo, Cassandra) and RelationDB
• Experience in ElasticSearch, Re