Staff Software Engineer (Cloud Development - Wildfire)

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

We are seeking a Software Engineer to develop, build, and maintain our cutting edge cloud based, security product Infrastructure, which operates at massive scale and helps protect customers against constantly evolving online threats and attacks. Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. 

We want passionate engineers who love to design and code world-class security services on Cloud Providers. Engineers who bring new ideas in all facets of software development, individual contributors who want to expand their skill set, take ownership of their feature areas and who are driven to solve problems at every level.

Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Participate in the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate and work well with others towards achieving a common goal.

Your Impact

• Participate in the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Python / Golang code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

Qualifications

Your Experience

• You have very good programming skills, and have hands-on skills in one - Python, Golang, and other programming languages
• You understand computer systems well, and have experience in linux command line, software development tools, and be able to participate in software development lifecycle like requirements analysis, design, and testing
• You have strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• You have a passion for technology and innovation
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment 
• A plus if you have experience with one or more of the following - 
  • databases SQL/NoSQL
  • building REST/grpc API services 
  • building CI/CD pipeline and production deployment
  • cloud-native service development stack on GCP/AWS or other clouds
  • Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
  • Exposure to the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Engineering is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. 

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digita