Sr Principal Engineer Software (Cloud 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.
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

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Principal Engineer to join us to build the next generation Cloud Security to discover cloud resources, deploy & manage AI Runtime Security or software firewalls and monitor & protect cloud networks. Our platforms represent the foundation of our network security and cloud offerings, providing you an opportunity to define the future of the cloud security industry and align your work with the company's Platformization strategy. 

As a Sr. Principal Engineer on the Cloud Security team, you will bring innovation, thrive in an evolving and fast-paced environment to deliver creative, highly scalable and highly reliable cloud security services. We expect you to collaborate with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in developing and delivering products with the highest quality and velocity while ensuring security throughout the lifecycle.

To be successful in this position you must possess a deep understanding of cloud networking and have a passion for new technologies as well as strong coding and analytical skills for driving the end to end cloud security solutions in the full software development life cycle. 

Your Impact

• Set the example for high levels of accountability
• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions
• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture
• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Ensure the adoption of best practices in code quality, scalability and system design among team members
• Foster innovation in the organization
• Recruit and Mentor new team members

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications
• Strong proficiency in Golang or Python
• Expertise in NoSQL, SQL or Graph databases
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and message queues like Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.
• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD processes
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distri