Principal Software Engineer (Cloud/Data Lake)

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.

Job Description

Your Career

Cortex Data Lake (CDL) enables AI-based innovations for cybersecurity with the industry’s only approach to normalizing and stitching together an enterprise’s data. Cortex Data Lake can:

• Radically simplify customer security operations by collecting, integrating, and normalizing an enterprise’s security data
• Effortlessly run advanced AI and machine learning with cloud-scale data and compute
• Constantly learns from new data sources to evolve customer defenses

CDL is built to benefit from public cloud scale and locations ready for elastic scale, eliminating the need for local compute and storage. CDL has strict privacy and security controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or identifiable information. Its infrastructure is secured with industry-standard best practices for security and confidentiality, including rigorous technical and organizational security controls.

Principal Engineers are

• Technologists who can architect solutions to complex problems
• Experts who deliver on critical business needs in their domains
• Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo Alto Networks culture
• Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers as well as executives
• Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact 

• Driving the technical roadmap with hands-on participation in developing next generation data processing systems optimized for AI-powered use cases
• Conceptualize, Architect and develop highly efficient multi-cloud data pipelines to process & store multi-tenant data at Petabyte scale to enable AI/ML Applications
• Keep the product updated with best-of-the-times technology in a fast-evolving environment
• Work with SRE and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
• Recruit and Mentor new team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications with 
• Must have extensive hands-on programming skills in Java
• Experience in Python programming, expertise in Linux and shell scripting skills are a significant plus
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP , their services (DataFlow, BQ, Athena etc) and Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of databases SQL, NoSQL, Time series, GraphDB etc
• Good leadership and communication skills 
• High energy with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

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 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.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks,