Principal Software Engineer (Agentless Access)

Company Description

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. 

Job Description

The Agentless Access team specializes in Remote Browser Isolation for various use cases including for building capabilities for Prisma Access which allow agentless access for desktop devices and mobile platforms. We aim to build a global service with advanced browser specific remoting protocols and a platform of cutting edge cloud browsers based on Chromium.  We are looking for a highly technical individual, who can play a critical role in building the service at global scale across desktop and mobile platforms. Our team’s main focus is frontend and backend development, cloud technologies, engineering of large distributed systems with cost constraints on various clients and with network performance targets.

Additional areas of work include designing authentication flows with simple and intuitive UX, flexible and granular policy management as well as management consoles to help admins manage the service efficiently. Join us now, as the product is being built from the ground up, and help design and mature our service.

Your Impact

• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
• Work with different development and quality assurance groups to achieve the best quality - You accomplish this by being hands-on, creating tools, processes, and systems that produce transparency, alignment, and direction
• Profile, optimize and tune systems software (management/control/dataplane) for efficient cloud operation
• Work with DevOps and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues
• Work with other software development team to apply PanOS features on Prisma Access
• Interview, mentor and coach new team members  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Programming Experience in Go, Python
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming design concepts
• Experience in developing solutions in cloud environments
• Security background in general and security programs knowledge in particular – an advantage
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• BS/MS in CS, Engineering or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo