Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Your Career
Principal Software Engineers are:
- Technical experts that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
- Experts who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains
- Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo alto Networks culture
- Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers
- Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products
Your Impact
- Conceptualize, Collaborate and Develop highly scalable cloud native Network Management System for managing devices and services at scale in hybrid deployments
- Hands-on participation in developing next generation configuration management architecture
- Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
- Deliberate and build frameworks to improve quality of micro services
- Work with Devops and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
- Recruit and Mentor new team members
Your Experience
- 10+ years of experience in building large enterprise applications required - 3+ years experience in technical leadership roles in building major cloud native apps or subsystems
- Proven ability to lead and collaborate with many cross-functional teams with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery
- Experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, peer review, and operations
- Excellent programming skills in GoLang is a must, in C is preferred and Python is a plus
- Strong fundamentals in object oriented design and development is a must - Experience with or familiarity of Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration is required
- Experience developing microservice based solutions on public cloud infrastructure is highly desirable - Experience developing in Kubernetes based environments is a plus
- Experience building data management solutions using transactional data stores is required - Knowledge of and experience building enterprise software with graph databases is highly desirable
- Experience building network and security configuration management systems is highly desirable
- Experience building appliance based network management solutions is highly desirable
Education
- MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
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.
Compensation Disclosure
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 $170,000/yr to $250,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
