Staff Engineer Software (SaaS 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

Palo Alto Networks® CASB team is looking for a Software Engineer to help us build out our CASB Security capability on the cloud. You have the unique opportunity to:

Help build out a world class security service 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. 

Accelerate the development team in delivering security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure. 

Your Impact

• Responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support.

• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Java/ Python / Go lang code.

• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion.

• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions.

• Develop solid understanding and be able to explain advanced Cloud Computing and Cloud Security concepts to others.

• Work 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.

• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams.

• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes.

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud-native application development, at large organizations or innovative startups.

• Strong programming skills in one of Python, Go, or Java, with experience in building distributed systems.

• Preferred experience with security products- Data and DLP, CASB Security, SASE, integration with third party APIs and services.

• 5+ years Experience with running workloads on cloud-based architectures. (AWS/GCP experience preferred)

• 5+ years of experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, Mongo DB, Spring Boot.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.  

• Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved.

• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications. 

• Experience with building and delivering services and  workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures.

• Experience with the agile process and working