Principal Software Engineer (Email DLP)

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

Palo Alto Networks® Data Security team is looking for a  Principal Software Engineer to help build out our Email DLP capability on the cloud. As a founding member of the team, you have the unique opportunity to:

• Build a world class email DLP  solution which caters to the growing needs of multiple Fortune 100 enterprise companies across the globe
• Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings
• Enable the development team to deliver security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure

Your Impact

• Accelerate the technology strategy for building out a world class email DLP solution, influence critical decisions on technology, architecture,integration, and go to market
• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team
• Foster innovation in the organization
• Participate in hiring, developing, and mentoring software developers

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in highly technical roles in development of enterprise services, at large organizations or innovative startups
• Preferred experience with security concepts - Email Relay Protocols, SMTP and POP3 technologies and exchange servers(O365, Gmail Exchange among others), DLP security, CASB Security, Data Security
• Preferred experience with AI based conversational UI and chatbot platforms 
• Preferred experience with machine learning (building custom models, GPT-4 and LLMs)
• Experience with the agile process and leading software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale
• Experience with building and delivering services and  workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures
• Experience with cloud-based architectures (AWS/GCP experience preferred)
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following - Java, Golang, Python 
• 3+ years of experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, Mongo DB, Spring Boot
• Strong experience with Full Stack and UI technologies like React,js, node.js preferred
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms  
• Strong understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery 
• Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong leadership skills with a can-do attitude and ability to make trade-off judgements with data driven decision makin