Palo Alto Networks · 14 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer - (SASE)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$173K/yr - $238K/yr
10+ years expPalo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting digital lifestyles. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their SASE team to lead the software development process, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and create scalable solutions in the SASE domain.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure
Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions
Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations
Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact
Qualification
Required
10+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development
Strong grasp on designing complex systems and on data structures and algorithms
Experience of using cloud native functionalities/services using API/plugins
Extensive hands-on (expert level) programming skills in Go, Python, Java, C/C++
Experience in developing solutions in using Docker, and cloud environments such as Kubernetes, GCP/OCI/AWS lambda and related cloud services
Experience in building multithreaded concurrent and distributed systems that can scale in production environments
Exposure to CICD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, Jenkins etc
Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following - Grafana / ELK / New Relic / Datadog / Splunk
Strong knowledge of databases BQ, Neo4j/graph-db, SQL, noSQL
Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, IPSec, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL etc
Network infrastructure, Firewall, Load balancing concepts and Security implementations is a plus
Experience in telemetry data monitoring (log, metrics and traces) from source devices and applications and visualizations is a plus
M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M
Leadership Team
Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
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