Sr Principal Software Engineer (Access Technologies)

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

Your Career

In a world where remote work is the new norm, organizations’ perimeters are much more loosely defined and cloud-native apps replace data centers rapidly, a new approach is needed to provide connectivity, compliance and security for all.

Prisma Access (formally GlobalProtect Cloud Service) provides protection straight from the cloud to make access to the cloud secure. It combines the connectivity and security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next-generation security protection to all cloud services, customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.

As a Sr Principal Engineer -  you will build and design distributed backend services that are the backbone of our platform. You will need to think wide about all system components and will need to consider the trade-offs with every design decision you make.You will work with the latest technologies and development methodologies to achieve the best outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to join very early and take charge of new product architecture and build it from scratch.

Your Impact

• Analyze requirements, design, develop and support highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Actively guide testing of critical components in the product, taking into account complex considerations of multiple platforms, performance, supportability, maintainability and much more
• Collaborate  closely with the Product management, Development, Quality Assurance, SRE  and Customer support teams on delivering the roadmap and improving customer outcomes
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team, innovate around tools and process development
• Write design documents, software development guidelines, and best practices
• Advocates for changes in the architecture based on new technologies,  business context and future roadmaps
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams, explain highly complex Cloud Computing and Security concepts to others

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in building complex, high scale SaaS solutions - Preferably experienced in Golang
• Passion for software engineering and coding, energetic and eager to create  and outperform
• Experience in developing cloud distributed applications and cloud infrastructures
• Strong computer science fundamentals and understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Proven record designing and implementing scalable REST APIs, services and data pipelines
• Hands-on experience using SQL/NoSQL based databases
• Understanding of microservices-based deployments with the ability to introduce  monitoring/tracing of application logs (e.g. Splunk) from inception
• Experience handling Devops, SRE, availability and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product
• 5+ years experience with running complex workloads on cloud-based architectures on one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GC