Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Data Collection, Java (Xpanse)

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

The Xpanse Collections team is expanding, and we’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer. The Collections team is responsible for scanning the public Internet, extracting public data sets, and integrating with 3rd party data sets to create the foundation for Xpanse’s Attack Surface Management and Threat Hunt products. We gather an “attacker’s view” of every publicly accessible service so our customers can better understand their technology footprint and vulnerability risk. In this role, you will play a key part in securing some of the world’s largest and most consequential organizations in both the public and private sector.

Your Impact

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Collections team, you will 

• Design and develop robust data collection pipelines using Java multithreading and Apache Beam frameworks
• Architect and implement scalable ETL and ELT processes to handle data ranging from gigabytes to petabytes in size
• Design and optimize data storage and indexing solutions for both real-time streaming and batch processing applications
• Enhance and optimize Internet scanning workloads in Golang
• Investigate new data sources and perform data analysis to estimate customer impact
• Collaborate with the rest of your team on architectural direction, managing technical debt, and continuously evolving the team's agile development process
• Engage with downstream teams to enable the creation of new customer-facing features
• Mentor other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output
• Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer writing back end software
• Have a passion for writing software that boosts the productivity of other software development teams - Excited to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production - results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experienced and opinionated about API design and distributed backend systems - Able to switch between research, design, prototype, and implementation
• Are proficient in Java or Golang
• Familiar with at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg., GCP, AWS or Azure)

These will fetch you bonus points

• Have expertise with any of the following - GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigTable, Apache Beam, low-level Internet protocols, database profiling
• Have experience using and enhancing CI/CD systems

Additional Information

The Team

Cortex Xpanse helps protect some of the world's most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. We provide customers with an unparalleled view of their attack surfaces, enabling them to properly secure their networks against cyber attacks. You will work with a high-performing team that is redefining the way the world thinks about cybersecurity. Our engineers are passionate, motivated and don't shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.  We need individuals who can go from ambiguity to clarity, don't shy away from the prospect of a challenge, and are thrilled about making the internet a safer place, everyday.

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