Sr Prinicipal Engineer Data Loss Prevention (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.

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara, CA headquarters Campus.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Architect, you will provide strategic architecture leadership to large engineering teams on large and complex projects for DLP Platform services. 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 Data Security solutions.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

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 Data 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 Data Security vision
• Lead and/or Influence technology selection for Data Security solutions
• Partner with Product Managers 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) or equivalent military experience required
• Prior experience as a Senior Architect supporting a large-scale cloud security product and an AI/ML engineering team is required
• Proven track record of successful architecture and design for large volume 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+ years experience in Apache Spark, and data analytics frameworks