Principal Software Engineer (DNS Security)

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.

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.

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. 

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks DNS Security team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help us build out our DNS Security capability on the cloud. You will participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, and design, through implementation and testing. Work closely with security researchers, and product managers on new feature requests, QA and DevOps on testing and deployment plans, and other engineering teams on all kinds of collaboration. 

Your Impact

• Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
• Develop key security research infrastructure for researchers and security services
• Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
• Mentor your fellow engineering members 
• Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Solid CS fundamentals, as well as networking knowledge
• Experience of designing and/or implementing massive scalable distributed systems
• Expert level programming in GoLang and Python
• Experience of any public cloud platform, GCP preferred. 
• Experience of data processing frameworks such as Spark, Apache Beam, BigQuery, Dataflow
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, HBbase/Bigtable, Spanner
• Communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment 
• Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Our Security Services Team is responsible for building next-generation threat prevention and antivirus solutions and shipping high-quality content to our products to prevent successful cyberattacks. The areas include malware analysis, IoT security, Web security, network security, privacy protection. 

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 between $140,100/yr to $226,600/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here