Sr Software Engineer (NGFW System Infrastructure)

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.

Our Approach to Work

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

We're seeking innovators - software engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

As a key member of the Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) System Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for designing and developing core system services and libraries for PAN-OS, which powers all next-gen firewall products at Palo Alto Networks. You will be part of a world-class multi-functional software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking technologies.

Your Impact

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will:

• Innovate, design, and develop core system infrastructure libraries and services (e.g. IPC infrastructure, process management, software upgrade, serviceability features)
• Contribute in all phases of the software development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and contribute to development, debugging and support
• Identify and drive improvements in existing software and development process

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required
• Experience developing, integrating and delivering product features or system components on Linux-based systems
• Expertise in designing and implementing high-quality, secure software
• Solid understanding of fundamentals of modern computing systems and their limitations
• Proficient in C/C++, Python or other modern and memory-safe system programming languages (e.g. Go, Rust)
• Team player with a collaborative mindset, a quality-driven focus and a can-do attitude
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups

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 pro