Sr Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Edge Service)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

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

Bring your backend 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 motivated engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Cloud Edge Services. Our service is the industry's premiere identity service that consistently protects across all networks, clouds and users.

Your Impact

• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions
• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture
• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offering to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes
• Foster innovation in the organization

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following - GO/Java(Primary), Python - Working knowledge of C is highly desirable 
• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications
• Experience in cloud technologies like Kafka, Elastic Search, Google Big Query or equivalent
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms  
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking is highly desirable  
• Experience in GCP or AWS is a plus
• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience and 10+ years of relevant experience required
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly 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 empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.