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Palo Alto Networks · 4 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Platform)

positionSanta Clara, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$140K/yr - $230K/yr
date8+ years exp

Palo Alto Networks is a leading cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting digital lives. They are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to join their Cortex backend engineering group, focusing on developing and maintaining backend features for Cortex products while collaborating with various teams to innovate and scale the platform.

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Responsibilities

End-to-end backend development of features and components across their entire life cycle (design, develop, test, deploy, maintain)
Work closely with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product
Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions
Production-oriented approach with providing real-time mitigation and solutions to production issues

Qualification

GoPythonCloud platformsMicroservices architectureBig-data architecturesDistributed computingSQL/NoSQL databasesCI/CD pipelinesAgile environmentCyber TechnologiesInformation SecuritySoftware Security

Required

M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of software engineering experience, including development of a scalable server-side application
Extensive hands-on programming skills in Go and/or Python
Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g. understanding of lock-free data structures, bloom filters, minimal perfect hashing, consistent hashing etc)
Proven Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP / AWS / Azure)
Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, Serverless, etc)
Experience with big–data architectures (using Kafka, Splunk, Flink, etc)
Experience with distributed computing (understand implications of CAP theorem, master election, brain split problem) and/or distributed DB/KVP (BigQuery, Elastic Search, Kafka and SingleStore)
Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases
Experience working in an agile and dynamic environment High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra
Familiarity with Cyber Technologies, Information Security, and Software Security

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
web-link
http://www.paloaltonetworks.com

H1B Sponsorship

Palo Alto Networks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2023 (341)
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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

Leadership Team

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Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
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Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
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