Sr 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.

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

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.

Your Impact

• Demonstrate deep technical expertise and thought leadership and use your knowledge of industry innovations, trends and practices to architect solutions to complex problems
• Be a visionary who delivers on critical business needs and is recognized across the company as a go-to engineering resource on given domains
• Role model and mentor, exemplifying the best of Palo Alto Networks culture
• A leader who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers as well as executives
• Hands-on engineer that can code and build great products

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications with 3+ years experience in technical leadership roles building large scale data pipelines.
• 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
• Strong leadership and communication skills 
• High energy with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this i