Distinguished Software Engineer - Unit 42 (Remote)

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

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.

Unit 42 has best-in-industry security consultants to support enterprises and organizations through their cybersecurity journeys. As a Senior Architect, you will provide strategic architecture leadership and leadership for a small team of developers to deliver the customer-facing system that scales across personas, internal and external, and geos. You understand the business imperatives tied to this platform. You provide technology leadership, drive the architecture and high level design, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of features and projects aligned to the priorities of the business. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines.

Your Impact

• Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing key code modules)
• As an employee in this newly-formed team, help design and build systems from scratch and implement processes to ensure modularity, efficiency and maintainability
• Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global
• Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code - Ensures the team follows a common set of principles, patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries - Own and contribute to standards documents
• Ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards
• Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity
• Lead and/or Influence technology selection
• Partner with Product Managers and product management executives to define/refine roadmap, discuss trade-offs of key features and architectures, help them balance features, innovation and tech debt prioritization- Be a “sounding board” for PM ideas, propose new features and innovation ideas
• Partner with Devops to develop best-of-breed deployment architectures
• Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across the team

Qualifications

Your Experience

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience, Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred or equivalent military experience required
• Proven track record of successful architecture and design
• 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building customer-facing web applications or services back-end
• Experience developing Software as a Service on a public cloud & microservice architectures
• Is agile, enjoys the speed of a fast-paced, highly engaged startup environment, curious, and constantly seeks to improve standards as we go along 
• 5+ years of experience building applications with Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• 15+ years of experience with large scale cloud applications experience built with one or more these languages - Java, Scala, GoLang, Python
• Expert in d