Principal Engineer Software (API Service)

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

The Cloud Management Platform is a public cloud delivered management platform to manage all Palo Alto Networks Next generation network security solutions. It's an easy-to-use, scalable and secure platform to operationalize complex deployments using the Palo Alto Networks network security portfolio. You will work in a team of highly motivated engineers building a highly scalable and secure multi-tenant public cloud solution to manage network and security configuration and operational data of the customer as well as manage devices in physical, virtual or container form factors. We are looking for passionate engineers that can code and build great products as well as leaders that can own and deliver. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with others towards achieving a common goal. 

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus, and in office 3 days a week. Not a remote opportunity. 

Your Impact

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications delivering high-availability and performance
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• Communicate with devops and cross functional team to deliver the project smoothly

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 8+ years experience design develop and deliver services at scale
• Experience/Familiar with GoLang is strongly preferred. Python
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Ability to think abstractly and solve complex problems
• Understanding and previous experience implementing authentication schemes such as OAuth2, SAML
• Must Have Advance knowledge of  any server side programming language.  Javascript(ES6), Node JS is preferred.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand complex APIs - REST, streaming, webhooks
• Knowledge of SQL & NoSQL (including mysql & dynamodb) and strong database modeling skills
• Experience with queueing/pub-sub technologies (Redis, RabbitMQ etc)
• Familiar with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes , Git is preferred
• Familiar with Micro Service  architecture is preferred.
• Familiar with typescript,  express or Hapijs is preferred.
• Deep understanding of code vulnerablities (security issues, type-safe code,  sql injections, XSS etc.)
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

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