Distinguished Software Engineer (CDSS)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Senior Architect, 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.

Your Impact

• Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing key code modules)

• Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global

• 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

• 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

• Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity- Align solutions with the SaaS Security and DLP vision

• Lead and/or Influence technology selection for CASB

• 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

• Partner with Devops teams and other peers across the team to develop best-of-breed deployment architectures

• Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across the team

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 15 years of work experience preferably with a Masters  degree (in computer science) or a minimum of 10 years of work experience with a PhD (in computer science)

• Prior experience as a Senior architect supporting a large scale cloud security product engineering team of at least 30 engineers

• Proven track record of successful architecture and design for high transactions and data volume in enterprise and/or consumer facing applications

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud technologies - AWS plus at least one other cloud provider (Azure, GCP or OCI)

• 12+ years of experience with large scale cloud applications experience built with one or more these languages: Java, Scala, GoLang, Python

• 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

• 3-4 yrs experience in Apache Spark, data analytics frameworks 

• Good understanding of security, cloud security