Palo Alto Networks · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer (Wildfire)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$147K/yr - $238K/yr
6+ years expPalo Alto Networks is a leading cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting digital life. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to develop and maintain their cloud-based security product, WildFire, focusing on innovative solutions to combat online threats.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity
Responsibilities
Participate in the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support
Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Python, C, Golang code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions
Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
Qualification
Required
Hands on experience writing production high quality scalable code in Python, C, Golang keeping performance in mind
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
Great design and architecture skills, turning an idea into a production grade design
Very strong knowledge of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies
Experience with writing asynchronous code in multi-threaded and multi-processes env
Experience with building REST/grpc API services
Writing code with quality in mind from the get go
Experience working with queuing system such as pubsub, RabbitMQ or Kafka
Exposure to using configuration management tools such as argocd, Ansible and/or Terraform
You enjoy working in a collaborative environment
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering / Computer science or equivalent military experience required
Preferred
Hands on experience with databases like SQL/NoSQL and other modern databases is a plus
Good to have a cloud-native service development stack on GCP/AWS or other clouds
A plus would be to have 6+ years of experience in this role
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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