Distinguished Software Engineer (CDSS)

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>Our Mission</strong></p><p>At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:</p><p>Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.</p><p>We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.</p><p>We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Your Career</strong></p><p>As a Distinguished Engineer, you will provide strategic architecture leadership to large engineering teams and product managers on large and complex projects for CASB services (SaaS Security and DLP). You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership, drive the architecture and high level design, are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of projects aligned to the business strategy. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next gen CASB solution.</p><p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p><ul><li>Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing key code modules)</li><li>Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global</li><li>Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code- Ensures project teams follow a common set of principles, patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries- Own and contribute to the internal engineering standards documents</li><li>Provides leadership across the DLP and SaaS Security organization via the Architecture meetings and ad-hoc engagements - ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards</li><li>Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity- Align solutions with the SaaS Security and DLP vision</li><li>Lead and/or Influence technology selection for CASB</li><li>Partner with Product Managers and product management executives to define/refine roadmap, discuss trade-offs of key features and architectures,  help them balance features, innovation and tech debt prioritization- Be a “sounding board” for PM ideas, propose new features and innovation ideas</li><li>Partner with Devops teams and other peers across the team to develop best-of-breed deployment architectures</li><li>Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across the team</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Your Experience</strong></p><ul><li>15 years of work experience preferably with a Master degree (in computer science) or a minimum of 10 years of work experience with a Ph.D. (in computer science) or equivalent military experience required</li><li>Prior experience as a Distinguished Engineer supporting a large-scale cloud security product engineering team of at least 30 engineers</li><li>Proven track record of successful architecture and design for high transactions and data volume in enterprise and/or consumer-facing applications</li><li>5+ years of experience in Cloud technologies - AWS plus at least one other cloud provider (Azure, GCP or OCI)</li><li>12+ years of experience with large-scale cloud applications experience built with one or more of these languages - Java, Scala, GoLang, Python</li><li>Expert in database technologies (e.g., MemSQL, SQL, Cassandra, etc.), queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Akka streams, etc.) - The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in these technologies</li><li>3 years experience in Apache Spark, data analytics frameworks </li><li>Good understanding of security, cloud security domain a plus - Senior/Chief Architect experience with an enterprise security product (on-prem or cloud)</li><li>Industry influence - track record of contributing code to open-source projects</li><li>Proven ability to work with international teams and track record of delivering large projects</li><li>Track record day-to-day coaching and mentoring principal and senior engineers - Ability to partner