Sr Principal Software Engineer (SaaS Policy)

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

Palo Alto Networks® SaaS Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Principal Software Engineer to help scale out our security platform with a sharp focus on platform and infrastructure capabilities.  As a member of the team, you have the unique opportunity to:

• Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings
• Lead initiatives in the infrastructure and platform team to deliver security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure
• Be expected to lead and participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation, test, and field deployment

Your Impact

• Lead the technology strategy for building out  world class platform and infrastructure solutions, influencing critical decisions on technology, architecture, integration, and go to market
• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team
• Foster innovation in the organization
• Hiring, developing, and mentoring software developers, and managing investments that accelerate scaling for new service offerings

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 15 years of work experience preferably with a Masters  degree (in computer science) or a minimum of 10 years of work experience with a PhD (in computer science)
• Preferred  hands-on experience and working knowledge of security concepts - CASB Security especially as it relates to Management Plane & Data Path cloud, policy framework around data path, Synching policy across pops and users, deep understanding of web protocols, integration with third party APIs and services - Knowledge around SaaS Application / Activity detection and policy around it will be a big plus
• Experience with the agile process and leading software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale
• Experience with building and delivering services and  workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures
• 5+ years experience with running complex workloads on cloud-based architectures (GCP experience preferred)
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following - Java(Primary) - Working knowledge of C++ is highly desirable
• 5+ years of experience in cloud technologies like Kafka, MongoDB, Spring Boot, Google Big Query or equivalent
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications
• Experience with Docker and Kube