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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

The Product

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 Career

Sr Principal Engineers are

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders who use their knowledge of industry innovations, trends and practices to architect solutions to complex problems
• Visionaries 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 as well as executives
• Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products

Your Impact 

• Thought leadership in driving the technical roadmap and 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 DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
• Recruit and Mentor new team members

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

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disabilit