Principal Engineer Software
Palo Alto Networks21 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Contribute to architecture and system design for connector services, including APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and operational boundaries.
- Harden, scale, test, maintain, and improve the connectors framework and related microservices for performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
- Ship and operate production microservices on AWS.
- Partner with product and engineering peers on technical trade-offs, roadmap alignment, and production readiness.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, incident learning, and efforts to improve engineering quality.
Requirements
- Approximately 8+ years of software engineering experience with sustained ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation.
- Strong knowledge of software and systems design, including abstractions, contracts, failure modes, scalability, and security implications.
- Hands-on experience in an AI-first environment and with SDD methodology.
- Technical depth in integration or connector systems, including synchronization and incremental jobs, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and rate limits.
- Experience with distributed backends at meaningful scale and demonstrated improvements to reliability, performance, or security.
- Identity or IGA-adjacent knowledge involving user and entitlement lifecycle, provisioning and deprovisioning, access reviews, HRIS or ITSM integrations, directories, SSO, SCIM, audit, compliance, and least-privilege concerns.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Palo Alto Networks provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.