Principal Engineer Software (Network Discovery)

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Help build what is next. Our Cloud Management Platform is a public cloud delivered management platform to manage all Palo Alto Networks Next generation network security solutions. It’s an easy-to-use, scalable and secure platform to operationalize complex deployments using the Palo Alto Networks network security portfolio.

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus, and in office 3 days a week.

Your Impact

• This is not a generalist role, please highlight your networking experience.
• Conceptualize, Collaborate and Develop highly scalable cloud native Network Management System for managing devices and services at scale in hybrid deployments
• Lead and Design next-generation configuration data management architecture and security posture products for customers
• Build Consolidated and unified framework to support AIops functionality including bpa (best practice checks and custom checks), policy optimizer, policy analyzer for all of the form factors
• Hands-on participation in developing next generation configuration management architecture
• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
• Deliberate and build frameworks to improve quality of micro services
• Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
• Recruit and Mentor new team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience in building large enterprise applications required
• Experience in Networking, Routing and building cloud native applications
• Experience with routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF or BGP is desired
• Knowledge of and experience building enterprise software with graph databases like Spanner or Neo4j is highly desirable
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate with many cross-functional teams with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery
• Experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, peer review, and operations
• Excellent programming skills in Golang or C is a must
• Experience with or familiarity of Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration is required
• Experience developing in Kubernetes based environments is a plus
• Experience developing microservice based solutions on public cloud infrastructure is highly desirable
• MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience

Additional Information

The Team

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