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Palo Alto Sr Principal Software Engineer Network Security 
United States, California 
80360586

24.06.2024
Description

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

Your Career

We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal. 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
  • Interact with quality assurance and field support teams throughout the entire software development cycle

Your Impact

  • Innovate, design, and develop new security features in our next-generation firewalls product
  • Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
  • Design new product features, with a high focus on quality and execution
  • Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support
  • Suggest and implement improvements to the development process
  • Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
  • Interview, mentor and coach new team members

Your Experience

  • B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required
  • 5+ years of enterprise product development experience with C in a Unix/Linux environment
  • Flair for coding and hands on experience debugging the code using tools like GDB is required
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP internals and common data structure and algorithms
  • Verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups
  • Teammates who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment
  • Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred
  • Knowledge of multi-core / multi-process / multi-threaded programming is preferred
  • Experience with windows agent programming and cloud programming (go) software development is preferred
  • Experience with large-scale and/or high-performance software design and development is preferred
  • Experience with TLS internals, cryptography, and OpenSSL is preferred
  • Experience with HTTP and web server backend development is preferred

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 $144,200/yr to $233,200/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .