Principal Engineer Software (Frontend/UI for AIOps)

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.

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

Your Career

Are you an exceptional Frontend Developer with a passion for developing clean, efficient, and performant user interfaces?

Our group is looking for an experienced UI Engineer who can architect and build visualizations that provide customers insights into network activity. We have large amounts of datasets in our data lake built on public cloud. We would like to perform analytics on this data and derive correlations, so we can surface concerning data patterns and user behaviors. This is an opportunity to use both your technical expertise and your passion for delivering business value, by being part of an org tackling real world problems leveraging the largest data platform in the security domain. You will drive the frontend initiatives and information architecture to deliver the best user experience for our products. You will influence the direction of our technology as well as mentor other members of your team.

This role is located at our Santa Clara, CA Headquarters. 

Your Impact

• Work with other frontend developers, designers, and backend engineers to plan, implement and deploy sophisticated user interfaces using modern CSS and JS
• Participate in the design of new features with product and UX experts
• Pro-actively design and improve all aspects of the UI, collaborate closely with team members to produce extraordinary user experiences

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience and Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field of study or equivalent military experience required OR 8+ years of experience with a technical master’s degree - We will also consider equivalent practical experience
• Proficiency in JavaScript and React - please highlight on your resume
• Experience with HighCharts, CSS, SASS and Styled Components
• Extensive knowledge of web standards and modern browsers, responsive design, and of the full web technology stack
• Experience with REST/JSON APIs 
• Experience with Git and CI tools
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and functional tests
• Ability to structure and build complex client-side applications
• Leadership skills and the ability to work with engineers and non-engineers of various skill levels

Nice to Have 

• Experience with developing software on public cloud infrastructure such as GCP or AWS is a plus
• Understanding of network security fundamentals and network layers
• Understanding of authentication/authorization frameworks
• Experience in building complex software systems running on large scale production environments
• Data source query using SQL
• Professional experience in software development, using Java or more programming languages such as JavaScript, Python
• Experience in building RESTful APIs and API Communication

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are continually innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and motivated by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only mitigated by a secure digital environment.

Palo Alto Networks is the fastest-growing security company in history. We foster a culture of innovation, and collaboration. This focus helps to advance our mission of protecting our way of life in