Palo Alto Sr Staff Software Engineer NGFW Dataplane 

United States, California 

597254039

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

Your Career

We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall dataplane team as a Software Engineer. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall. As a member of a data plane networking software group, you will be responsible for designing and developing the next-generation firewall. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer 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 in the whole software development cycle. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks.

Your Impact

• Responsible for development of the critical dataplane components for the State-of-the-art Next Generation Firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments
• Lead L2-L4 network security feature development
• Lead next generation security product development
• Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner
• Work with multi-functional team members on user requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc.
• Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments

Your Experience

• Experience in common network protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, multicast.
• Experience in dataplane technologies like DPDK based packet processing.
• Experience in typical network device features like NAT, ALG, DoS Protection.
• Experience in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems.
• Good to have experience in using Broadcom chips for switching, QoS and interface management.
• In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations.
• In-depth understanding of linux systems.
• C, Python, Shell script programming skills.
• Experience in networking domains.
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
• 4+ years of related programming experience

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 $133,000 - $195,000/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.