Palo Alto Networks · 6 hours ago
Sr Principal Software Engineer (Wildfire - Backend)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $277K/yr
10+ years expPalo Alto Networks is dedicated to protecting the digital way of life through innovative technology. They are seeking a Sr Principal Software Engineer to develop and maintain their cloud-based security product infrastructure, focusing on malware detection and scalable solutions.
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Responsibilities
Thought leadership in driving the technical roadmap and Hands-on participation in developing next generation architecture optimized for the scalable solutions
Conceptualize, Architect and develop highly efficient multi-cloud micro services and data pipelines to support 10x traffic increases
Keep the product updated with best-of-the-times technology in a fast-evolving environment
Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
Recruit and Mentor new team members
Qualification
Required
10+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications with 4+ years experience in technical leadership roles
Hands on experience writing production high quality scalable code in Python/Golang, extensive experiences with writing asynchronous code in multi-threaded and multi-processes env
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 and own end to end development and releases
Strong knowledge of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies
Hands on experience with databases like SQL/NoSQL and other modern databases is a plus
Experience with performance profiling, tuning and improvement
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering / Computer science or equivalent
Preferred
Good to have a cloud-native service development stack on GCP/AWS or other clouds
Experience with building REST/grpc API services and queuing system such as pubsub, RabbitMQ or Kafka
Exposure to using configuration management tools such as argocd, Ansible and/or Terraform
A plus would be to have 2-3 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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