Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Security)
Santa Clara, CA, United States
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Palo Alto Networks
Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Workforce, Leverage Threat Intelligence & Security Consulting. Cybersecurity Services & Education for CISO’s, Head of Infrastructure, Network Security Engineers, Cloud...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 well-being 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
Palo Alto Networks® SaaS Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Staff 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 platform team to deliver security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions
- 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
- Drives the architecture and development for key modules via architecture/design documents and developing key code modules
- Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global
- Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity- Align solutions with the SaaS Security vision
- Lead and/or Influence technology selection for SaaS Security solutions
- Partner with Product Managers to define/refine roadmap, discuss trade-offs of key features and architectures, help them balance features, innovation and tech debt prioritization - Be a “sounding board” for PM ideas, propose new features and innovation ideas
- Partner with Devops teams and other peers across the team to develop best-of-breed deployment architectures
Qualifications
Your Experience
- 10 years of work experience preferably with a Masters degree (in computer science) or a minimum of 10 years of work experience or equivalent military experience required
- Prior experience as an architect supporting a cloud security product engineering team
- Proven track record of successful architecture and design for high transactions and data volume in enterprise and/or consumer facing applications
- 5+ years of experience in Cloud technologies - GCP plus at least one other cloud provider (Azure, AWS or OCI)
- 10+ years of experience with large scale cloud applications experience built with one or more these languages - Java, Scala, GoLang, Python
- Expert in database technologies (e.g., MemSQL, SQL, Cassandra, etc.), queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Akka streams, etc.) - The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in these technologies
- 3+ years experience in Apache Spark, data analytics frameworks
- Good understanding of security, cloud security domain a plus - Experience with an enterprise security product (on-prem or cloud)
Desired Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in building Cloud Security products
- Experience building products with ML/AI techniques will be a big plus
- 5+ years experience to develop APIs (REST) based project using and experience with JSON
- 5+ years of experience in NoSQL DB (Mongo, Cassandra) and RelationDB
- 3+ years of experience in ElasticSearch, Redis and Kafka
- 3+ years of experience in modern containerization (& cloud) technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- 3+ years of experience in mentoring junior team members in a high-performing teams
- 2+ year of experience in AWS/GCP/Azure cloud
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with teammates in a highly collaborative environment and simultaneously be a self-starter with strong individual contributions
- Big Plus if you have CASB or general SaaS application experience
- Big plus if you have experience with data security domain
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.
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $144,200/yr to $233,200/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
Tags: Analytics APIs AWS Azure CASB Cassandra Cloud Computer Science Data Analytics DevOps Docker Elasticsearch GCP Golang Java JSON Kafka Kubernetes NoSQL Python Redis SaaS Scala SQL
Perks/benefits: Career development Medical leave Salary bonus Startup environment
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