Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Management Platform)

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

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

Help build what is next. Our Cloud Management Platform is a public cloud delivered management platform to manage all Palo Alto Networks Next generation network security solutions. It’s an easy-to-use, scalable and secure platform to operationalize complex deployments using the Palo Alto Networks network security portfolio.

Principal Software Engineers are:

• Technical experts that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

• Experts who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains

• Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo alto Networks culture

• Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers

• Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products

Your Impact

As a key engineer in the Cloud Management team you will:

• Participate in architecture - design and development of features for the company’s security platforms on on-premise devices, the public cloud and private cloud

• Proven ability to lead and collaborate with many cross-functional teams with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications delivering high-availability and performance

• Actively involved in code reviews to ensure the shipped product meets the highest code standards and follows best practices

• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of experience working as a Backend /API Engineer

• You have expertise in any server side programming language - GO, Node JS is preferred

Education

• MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required

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• Advance knowledge of object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns

• Ability to think abstractly and solve complex problems

• Advance knowledge of complex APIs - REST, streaming, webhooks, AAA mechanisms

• Knowledge of SQL and strong database modeling skills

• Experience with queueing/pub-sub technologies (Redis, RabbitMQ etc)

• You have experience with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Git

• You have experience with Micro Service architecture

• Understanding of code vulnerabilities (security issues, type-safe code,  sql injections, XSS etc.)

Additional Information

The Team

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 empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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