Palo Alto Networks · 3 days ago
Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Application Development)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$147K/yr - $238K/yr
7+ years expPalo Alto Networks is dedicated to protecting our digital way of life through innovative cybersecurity solutions. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the technical development of cloud security solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement high-scale distributed systems.
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Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of solutions, ensuring alignment with cross-functional product management and quality assurance teams
Design, implement, and troubleshoot robust next-generation cloud security solutions to address complex network security challenges
Drive the development of scalable cloud security architecture through hands-on coding and strategic architectural planning
Manage the full product development lifecycle, from definition and design through implementation, testing, and deployment
Collaborate proactively with Product Management, SRE, and Quality Engineering to deliver high-quality security-as-a-service offerings to market
Simplify complex technical issues to improve end-customer outcomes by working closely with customer support teams
Foster a culture of innovation, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving within the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field with 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience
Minimum of 5 years of hands-on programming experience in Go or Java, with additional proficiency in Python or C highly valued
Proven experience designing and developing high-performance, high-scale distributed software applications in a cloud environment
Strong technical proficiency with cloud technologies such as message queue(Kafka/PubSub/Redis), Data Storage(SQL/Bigtable/Redis/Mongo/BigQuery)
Demonstrated expertise in backend development, including REST APIs, databases, and serverless computing for distributed cloud applications
Preferred
Experience with container orchestration platforms, specifically Docker and Kubernetes
Comprehensive understanding of public cloud design considerations, including microservice architectures, global network infrastructure, and load balancing
Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols and principles
Prior experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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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