Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks® CASB team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help us build out and launch our Data Security capability on the cloud. You have the unique opportunity to:

• Help launch a world class security service which caters to the growing needs of multiple Fortune 100 enterprise companies across the globe
• Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings
• Accelerate the development team in delivering security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure

Your Impact

• Be Responsible for the end to end workflows powering our data security platform with a very strong focus on quality, reliability, availability and security - You will make key decisions on frameworks and have a very strong bias towards an automation first mindset
• Accelerate the technology strategy for building out a world class data security platform, influence critical decisions on technology, architecture, integration, and go to market
• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team
• Foster innovation in the organization
• Participate in hiring, providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering their growth and professional development

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in highly technical roles in development of enterprise services, at large organizations or innovative startups
• 5+ years of experience in cloud technologies like Search, Redis, Kafka/PubSub, Mongo DB/Spanner, Spring Boot
• Prior experience working as a hands-on engineer across Software engineering, Quality and DevOPS/SRE functions
• Prior experience leading and making key decisions around tooling, frameworks and automation
• Experience with the agile process and leading software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale
• Experience with building and delivering services and workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures
• Experience with cloud-based architectures (AWS/GCP experience preferred)
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following - Java, Golang, Python
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Strong understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong leadership skills with a can-do attitude and ability to make trade-off judgements with data driven decision making
• Preferred experience with AI based conversational UI and chatbot platforms/frameworks
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communications skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science, other engineering/technical degree or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $140,100/yr to $226,600/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here .