Palo Alto Sr Staff Engineer Software Cloud Network & AI Security 

United States, California 

704991653

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

Your Career

As a member of the Virtualization team at Palo Alto Networks, you will develop our next-generation virtualization and SDN offerings. Responsibilities will include designing and implementing new hypervisor deployments and integrations, integrations with SDN provisioning tools, and core networking improvements in pure software environments.

Your Impact

• You will be expected to participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and participate in development, debug and support
• Candidate should also have hands-on experience with virtualization technologies, various hypervisors, system software, networking, and have experience with Linux kernel software development

Your Experience

• Expert C programming skills
• Hands-on experience developing for VMware ESX, XenServer, KVM, and/or Hyper-V
• Excellent communication and networking skills
• Good understand of network security fields such as stateful firewall, packet processing, TCP stream inspection, network ACL, and HA preferred
• Experience with deployment on cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience developing device drivers and/or Linux kernel development preferred
• Experience with networking hardware and familiarity with physical networking technologies
• Strong scripting skills with bash and python
• Knowledge of orchestration systems like OpenStack is a plus
• Ability to work well with a group of senior engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Minimum 4 years of related programming experience required

Education

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required

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 $126000/yr - $204500/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.