Sr Principal Software Engineer (Engineering Productivity / Platforms)

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 has a vision to secure the future and in order to make it a reality, the Platform organization is tasked with providing a platform of services that delight our users and accelerate the velocity and innovation of security products in the cloud. How we develop, build, test and ship our platform and products greatly impacts our ability in delivering the highest quality experience for all our users.

We are looking for humble, empathetic, self-motivated and passionate team members that constantly challenge the status quo, thrive in an evolving and fast-paced environment to find creative, efficient and high quality solutions to complex problems. We expect you to take healthy risks as you collaborate with engineering teams across the company to empower them in developing and delivering their products with the highest quality and velocity while ensuring security throughout the lifecycle.

As a Sr Principal Software Engineer on the Engineering Productivity/Platform team, you will be instrumental in elevating the innovation within the team as we champion a world-class engineering culture across the company. You will tremendously impact thousands of engineers and drive the technical vision and  initiatives in source code management, build and test tooling, end-to-end CI/CD pipeline workflows while automating everything (well, everything that matters and should be automated). You will also get an opportunity to mentor junior engineers on the team and help them grow in their careers and rise to tackle more and more challenging problems.

Your Impact

• Provide technical leadership, demonstrate and inspire engineering best practices to plan and execute critical, large-scale and company-wide projects
• Scale the infrastructure, tools and frameworks needed to keep our thousands of developers in sync while sharing code, building, testing, releasing and deploying their applications and services continuously
• Partner with every engineering team at Palo Alto Networks to develop solutions for challenges faced by them and increase developer delight, efficiency and productivity
• Design, build and maintain tools and frameworks to automate the commit-deploy pipeline (including development, testing, release/deployment and monitoring) of our products and services
• Simplify and increase visibility into the CI pipeline and enable easier and faster insights into potential problems
• Mentor junior engineers and enable them to uplevel themselves

Qualifications

Your Experience

• A deep understanding of Engineering Productivity tools and platforms
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
• Experience with build frameworks
• Experience with configuration management systems, infrastructure as code tools, and secrets management
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, C/C++, Go or Node.js
• Proficiency in algorithms, data structures, and system design

Bonus

• Full stack (web, backend) exposure
• Prior experience building CI/CD using Gitlab/Bitbucket/Jenkins, Vault, Artifactory, Spinnaker etc.
• GCP experience

Additional Information

The Team