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Palo Alto Networks · 2 months ago

Principal Engineer Software (Advanced DNS Resolver )

positionSanta Clara, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$185K/yr - $210K/yr
date7+ years exp

Palo Alto Networks is committed to being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for the complete software development process for the Advanced DNS Resolver service, collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering high-quality features at a fast pace.

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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

GolangPythonDNS protocolsAWSGCPCI/CD pipelinesNetworking protocolsCloud monitoringApplication performance monitoringTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Required

7+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development
Extensive hands-on (expert level) programming skills in Golang and Python
Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS, with good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud native services like pubsub, cloud storage and Big Query
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, etc
Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following - Grafana / ELK / Cloud monitoring
In depth understanding of DNS protocols, extensions, DNS resolution infrastructure and ecosystem
Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, etc
M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Benefits

Restricted stock units
Bonus

Company

Palo Alto Networks

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Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
dateFounded in 2005
location
Santa Clara, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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http://www.paloaltonetworks.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$65M
Key Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M

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Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
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Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
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