Palo Alto Sr Principal Engineer Software Cortex Backend Engineering 

United States, California 

133784

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

Your Impact

As a Senior Principal Engineer on the team, you will:

• Work regularly across teams as an acknowledged technical leader in the organization

• Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation as project lead or mentor thereof

• Lead efforts to align planned work across the product in collaboration with product management, UX design, and fellow engineering stakeholders

• Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them

• Proactively spot, articulate, and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution and high output – this may include providing ad hoc mentorship, communicating with project stakeholders, or rolling up your sleeves and stepping in to help move things along

• Mentor engineers across the department

• Regularly provide cross-team technical collaboration and consultation

• Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery

• Design and build business logic and API endpoints using Python and Flask

• Design and build backend services using Go

Your Experience

• 14+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud-native application development, at large organizations or innovative startups

• Strong programming skills in one of Python, Go, or Java, with experience in building distributed systems

• 8+ years of experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Pubsub, etc.

• Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved

• Experience with cloud development (REST APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications

• Experience with building and delivering services and workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures

• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing

• Experience with the agile process and working with software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale

• Experience as a hands-on tech lead / architect

• Can-do attitude and ability to make trade-off judgements with data driven decision making

• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communications skills

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical degree

Nice to Have

• Strong understanding and applied knowledge of Kubernetes architecture deployments (such as Ansible, Kubespray, Helm, CDK8s, k8s managed and unmanaged) and a variety of Kubernetes distributions such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2)

• Experience with cloud-native storage solutions (e.g. Ceph, Rook) with a proven ability to develop and manage custom Kubernetes controllers or operators

• Strong understanding of principles of DevSecOps, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery

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 $170000 - $277000/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.