Senior Principal Software Engineer (L7 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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

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

• We're seeking highly motivated and innovative senior engineers to build the next industry disruptive state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These self driven engineers love to code with dedication in order to build global products and bring new security ideas to solve real world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and relentlessly pursue details at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a complex idea. As a key member of Layer 7 Security group, you will be responsible for:

  • Design and develop advanced security features on the next-generation firewalls

  • Work with product management on to translate ideas into functional designs

  • Utilize your programming skills to produce efficient, robust and secure implementation

  • Interact with support teams throughout the entire software development cycle

• 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.

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  Your Impact

  • Innovate, design, and develop new security features in our next-generation firewall product

  • Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and verification

  • Design robust development methodology to address new product features, with a high focus on quality and execution

  • Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support

  • Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

  • Leadership in mentorship and coach new team members

  • Suggest and implement improvements to the development process

Qualifications

Your Experience

• B.S. or higher degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline with 10+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent practical experience required

• Highly Proficient in the C programming language and familiarity with Unix/Linux software development environment

• Hands-on experience with networking protocols and network security technologies

• Expertise of multi-core / multi-process / multi-threaded programming

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP internals and common data structure and algorithms

• Solid communication skills and bring a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment

• Experience with large-scale and high-performance software design and development is preferred

• Experience with cloud orchestration and containerized deployment is preferred

• Experience with golang programming and python software developm