Senior Software Engineer - Unit 42 (Remote)

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

We're seeking innovators - software engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems 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 common goal.

Unit 42 has best-in-industry security consultants to support enterprises and organizations through their cybersecurity journeys. You will build the backend supporting Unit 42’s customer-facing Web applications. You will work closely with engineering counterparts ensuring that the overall system built scales across personas, internal and external, and geos. It is expected that this individual is able to deliver across a number of applications and use cases. As a fast moving organization, we are looking for a self-starter to bootstrap and drive modern cloud service development for the team.

Your Impact

• We are looking for a full-stack engineer to help build a scalable and performant micro service based architecture with public and private APIs
• Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Design robust technical solutions to business problems, with a high focus on quality and execution
• As an employee in this newly-formed team, help design and build systems from scratch and implement processes to ensure modularity, efficiency and maintainability
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support
• Define, suggest and implement improvements to the development process
• Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Mentor, coach and help grow a strong technical team

Qualifications

Your Experience

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience, Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of experience with web back-end frameworks and Go and/or Java
• Familiar with database architecture, scalability, performance, and tuning
• 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building customer-facing web applications or services back-end
• Experience designing/building scalable RESTful API’s
• Develop, troubleshoot and maintain production level application code for new services and products
• Understand the value of iterating fast - learning from small, safe, frequent changes
• Experience with cloud infrastructure & services (AWS / Google Cloud / Azure )
• Experience developing Software as a Service on a public cloud & microservice architectures
• A focus on quality, with experience writing unit tests and collaborating with quality engineering to develop test plans
• Is agile, enjoys the speed of a fast-paced, highly engaged startup environment, curious, and constantly seeks to improve standards as we go along 
• Has a belief in automation, tooling, and testing as critical parts of the software lifecycle
• Verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups
• Teammate who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team