Sr Principal Engineer Software (DLP)

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

Bring your backend java cloud engineering skills to work on the latest cloud software/web applications. Help us deploy and scale the next generation of cloud security utilizing big data and Analytics. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Data Loss Prevention(DLP). Our DLP service is the industry's first cloud-delivered Enterprise DLP that consistently protects sensitive data across all networks, clouds and users. This fast-growing cloud service prevents data breaches by identifying sensitive data consistently throughout the entire enterprise. It also guarantees that your data security strategy adheres to compliance and data privacy regulations.This role will also give you an unrivaled opportunity to build micro services to process terabytes of data efficiently with different cloud providers.

Your Impact

• Architect and implement innovative solutions for predicting and preventing advanced threats on email such as data leak prevention, data exfiltration and accidental data loss
• Design and implement next-generation solutions for our cloud based DLP email gateway product in a fast-paced environment while optimizing for scalability, performance, concurrency, availability, security and code quality
• Push engineering boundaries, coming up with high quality, simple solutions to complex engineering and product problems, while continuously growing your skillset to induce increased innovation within the team over time
• Maintain and cultivate high quality in terms of engineering practices, code quality, and work/foster a culture of engineering excellence, and dynamic execution
• Strong ownership mindset while owing the execution of complex engineering challenges including their architecture, their timelines, while collaborating with stakeholders including UI/UX designers, product owners
• Collaborate closely with the product management, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
• Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success
• Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Interview, mentor and coach new team members

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8 years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• Be a self-starter, able to learn independently and adapt quickly
• Advanced-level of experience and expertise with Java in a distributed/cloud-based product
• Solid experience with Spring framework, Rest API, MongoDB, Redis, Google BigTable/BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes and Docker
• Cloud Experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
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