Senior Staff Software Engineer (CDL-NetSec)

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 is the fastest-growing security company in history. We foster a culture of innovation and collaboration. This focus helps to advance our mission of protecting our way of life in the digital age. Our people make this possible. It’s in our everyday interactions, how we work together and treat each other, that sets Palo Alto Networks apart from other organizations. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual, then this job is for you!

This is an opportunity to use both your technical expertise and your passion for delivering business value to be a part of an org tackling real problems for real businesses on the largest data platform in the security domain. We are hiring principal, senior, or junior level engineers on query data processing based on large amounts of datasets in the Firewall Data Lake.

Firewall Data Lake is the industry's leading, AI-based data platform. Firewall Data Lake collects customers’ large amounts of data in Petabytes daily. The query service on the Data Lake provides fast and sophisticated queries for analytics, machine Learning and AI, so that our customers and tools can act on potential security threats. Customers can securely and privately store and analyze large amounts of data that is normalized for advanced AI and machine learning to find threats and orchestrate responses quickly. We’re building the foundations of the next inflection point in the security industry by combining our deep expertise in security with the state of art in large-scale infrastructure for data processing and machine learning (think exabytes of data).

This is a unique opportunity to help build the products and practices that will support our growth over the next decade. If you see the potential of how incredible people can transform a business, this is the role for you. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

Your Impact

• Design and implement ingestion, streaming and query processing services using Kafka, Flink and BigQuery scalable technologies
• Build a large-scale production system with high throughput and low latency, based on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Interface with the broader data platform teams to help develop a long-term technology roadmap
• Be both a deep technical leader and a hands-on engineer
• Champion engineering excellence, establish business metrics and drive continuous operational improvement

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years’ experience or equivalent in software engineering
• Professional experience in software development, using java or more programming languages
• Experience in distributed data processing and system
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database systems

Preferred Qualifications 

• Skills for planning and executing complex projects
• Experience on frameworks and infra architecture
• Deep hands-on technical expertise
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems running on large-scale production environments
• Experience on public clouds and products, such as BigQuery on GCP, or AWS is a plus
• Experience in query engine optimization is a plus

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – 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 digital environment. 

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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