Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Your Career
Prisma Access (formally GlobalProtect Cloud Service) provides protection straight from the cloud to make access to the cloud secure. It combines the connectivity and security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next-generation security protection to all cloud services, customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.
As a Principal Engineer - you will build and design distributed backend services that are the backbone of our platform. You will need to think wide about all system components and will need to consider the trade-offs with every design decision you make.
You will work with the latest technologies and development methodologies to achieve the best outcomes.
Your Impact
- Analyze requirements, design, develop and support highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
- Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
- Actively guide testing of critical components in the product, taking into account complex considerations of multiple platforms, performance, supportability, maintainability and much more
- Collaborate closely with the Product management, Development, Quality Assurance, SRE and Customer support teams on delivering the roadmap and improving customer outcomes
- Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
- Be a strong mentor and coach to the team, innovate around tools and process development
- Write design documents, software development guidelines, and best practices
- Advocates for changes in the architecture based on new technologies, business context and future roadmaps
- Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams, explain highly complex Cloud Computing and Security concepts to others
Your Experience
- 10+ years’ experience in building complex, high scale SaaS solutions - Preferably experienced in Golang
- Passion for software engineering and coding, energetic and eager to create and outperform
- Experience in developing cloud distributed applications and cloud infrastructures
- Strong computer science fundamentals and understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- Proven record designing and implementing scalable REST APIs, services and data pipelines
- Hands-on experience using SQL/NoSQL based databases
- Understanding of microservices-based deployments with the ability to introduce monitoring/tracing of application logs (e.g. Splunk) from inception
- Experience handling Devops, SRE, availability and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product
- 5+ years experience with running complex workloads on cloud-based architectures on one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and their technologies (Lambda functions, SNS/SQS etc.)
- B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or Engineering 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.
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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $170,000/yr to $275,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .
