Principal Software Engineer ( Cloud Security )

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

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 Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer to join us to build the next generation Cloud Security to discover cloud resources, deploy & manage AI Runtime Security or software firewall and monitor & protect cloud networks. Our platforms represent the foundation of our network security and cloud offerings, providing you an opportunity to define the future of the cloud security industry and align your work with the company's Platformization strategy. 

As a Principal Engineer on the Cloud Security team, you will bring innovation, thrive in an evolving and fast-paced environment to deliver creative, highly scalable and highly reliable cloud security services. We expect you to collaborate with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in developing and delivering products with the highest quality and velocity while ensuring security throughout the lifecycle.

To be successful in this position you must possess a deep understanding of cloud networking and have a passion for new technologies as well as strong coding and analytical skills for driving the end to end cloud security solutions in the full software development life cycle. 

Your Impact

• Set the example for high levels of accountability

• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment

• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions

• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture

• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test

• Ensure the adoption of best practices in code quality, scalability and system design among team members

• Foster innovation in the organization

• Recruit and Mentor new team members

Qualifications

• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications

• Strong proficiency in Golang or Python

• Hands-on experience in NoSQL, SQL databases

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and message queues like Kafka, RabbitMQ

• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.

• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform

• Experience with CI/CD processes

• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills.

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking is plus

• Experience with cloud deployments on platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP

• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Scien