Sr Principal UI Engineer (Data Visualization)

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

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

Our SASE UI Engineering team is set out to build best-in-class, novel data visualization experiences that are custom to the cybersecurity use cases, for all the product teams across Network Security vertical at Palo Alto Networks. As a Data Visualization Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, your work will directly reach, and empower our products that are revolutionizing the cybersecurity industry.

Your Impact

• Collaborate cross functionally with designers, data visualization experts, and engineers on the SASE UI team to implement and support the reusable, and customizable data visualization components.
• Implement an architecture for the data visualization library that is scalable to multiple JS frameworks, and in the future Web Components.
• Write quality, and meaningful tests, and documentation to ensure easy adoption of the data visualization library.
• Create a playground GUI with a custom settings bar that users can play around with to tweak the different properties of the visualization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years professional experience as a data visualization /front-end engineer
• Portfolio showcasing data visualization development proficiency

Your Experience

• Great team player, willing to take on new challenging tasks.
• Self-driven with ability to work both independently and within a team environment to accomplish goals and objectives.
• Expertise in JavaScript, D3, WebGL, and/or Shader language GL/SL, HTML, CSS.
• Experience massaging large raw datasets to work well with simple and intuitive data visualization.
• Familiarity with client-side modern build processes & tools - Webpack/Rollup.
• Comfortable with maintaining, and contributing to code repositories using git, GitHub/GitLab or other version control.
• Ability to create quick prototypes for data visualization projects with D3js.

Bonus Points

• Strong in frontend web development technologies, including ReactJS, TypeScript, with bonus points for experience with animation.
• Familiarity or willingness to learn data visualization technologies like VegaJS, ThreeJS, Observable Plot or new cutting edge libraries.
• Passion for building performant, interactive and accessible data visualization components.

Additional Information

The Team

The SASE UI team is responsible for delivering the industry’s first SASE solution to our customers at Palo Alto Networks. Our team has a unique position in driving efforts to create accessible, performant, and cutting edge UI and data visualization components/modules.

We foster a culture of innovation, authenticity, and collaboration. Our people make this possible. It’s in our everyday interactions, how we work together and treat each other, that sets Palo Alto Networks apart from other organizations.

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