Principal Software Engineer (AppID Cloud Services)

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

We're seeking innovators - 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 talent engineers 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.

Your Impact

• Participate in the design and implementation of threat prevention & AppID cloud services for public cloud and private cloud features
• Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Provide real-time security services to customers
• Work closely with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product
• Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions - Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
• Work with PLM on new feature requirement
• Work with QA and DevOps on new release deployment
• Work with security researchers and data scientist on a new feature request

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience required
• Solid programming skills in GoLang, Python
• Solid knowledge and skills on Linux
• Rich Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, Serverless, etc)
• Rich GCP experience is a plus
• Solid knowledge of web servers/proxies such as NGINX, envoy
• 6+ years of working experience on data infrastructure platforms
• Rich Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigQuery
• Hands-on experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, experience with Pub/Sub is a plus
• Solid skills in multi-threads and multi-processes programming and experience in a distributed system are preferred
• DevOps experience is a plus, Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra
• Teamwork, problem-solving and a can-do attitude

Additional Information

The Team

We are the AppID Cloud team. Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don't wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get bet