Palo Alto Principal Engineer Software Cloud Application 

United States, California 

373794207

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a key member of Layer-7 Security group, you will be responsible for designing and developing security features on the next-generation firewalls. You will work with product management on user requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams throughout the entire software development cycle.

Your Impact

• 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

• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions

• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture

• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test

• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offering to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality

• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness

• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes

• Foster innovation in the organization

Your Experience

• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications
• Experience in cloud technologies like Kafka, Elastic Search, SQL, Google Big Query or equivalent
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking is highly desirable
• Experience in GCP or AWS is a plus
• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• 5+ year hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following: GO/Java(Primary), Python; Working knowledge of C is highly desirable
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude

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 $147000 - $237500/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.