Senior Principal Engineer (Data Visualization)

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

You will have the opportunity to build a career solving network security challenges leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and LLMs on exabytes of data. You will play a pivotal role in creating and delivering industry-leading, dynamic widget and dashboard-enabled products that facilitate immediate insights, empowering swift remediation of network issues, threat detection, provision of intelligence, and device protection.

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

• You will work in a fast paced team to create and deliver new product and mission features to the network and security platform that many customers use on a daily basis
• You will actively engage and contribute to the network security community through collaborations
• You will be part of the team that is leading and driving industry technology evolution in and creating a positive impact on business
• Design and development of the first Auto-Dashboard Generation, setting a new standard in data visualization and reporting within the industry
• Turn data into actionable insights and intelligence for customers
• Creation and delivery of training materials
• Working closely with Design and PM teams

Qualifications

Your Experience

• M.S. or Ph.D degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, HCI or related field or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of industry experience, during which you've honed your skills in designing and developing data visualization solutions, dashboards, and data analytics
• 8+ years of experience in creating, building, and supporting rich and interactive graphical representations of large data sets
• Expertise with one or more of the following languages is must - Python or Java
• Experience in utilizing business intelligence tools or developing such tools will be considered an additional asset
• Proven track record in solving difficult real world problems by applying advanced Computer Science techniques
• Experience with Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Langchain, Transformer models or related areas is a big plus
• Providing subject matter expertise for developing advanced data analytics and computational technologies across a variety of products
• Open-mindedness, creativity and ability to think outside the box - This role is all about devising innovative solutions and algorithms for industry challenges
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• A self driven individual contributor and an excellent team player

Additional Information

The Team

We are on a mission to build the industry's best Security large language model.

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 d