Principal Software Engineer (Prisma Access)
Palo Alto Networks23 hours ago
Base Salary
$156k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements and design, develop, test, and support scalable software features and infrastructure for Prisma Access.
- Build distributed backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native security-platform components.
- Develop targeted AI/ML algorithms for cloud-security operations involving networking and orchestration.
- Automate monitoring infrastructure, optimize data collection, analyze system disruptions, and improve reliability and availability.
- Design and implement a new product architecture from scratch for large-scale SaaS workloads.
- Guide testing of critical components across platforms while considering performance, supportability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Development, Quality Assurance, SRE, Customer Support, architects, and program managers.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while delivering high-quality product features.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 8 years of proven software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or Java.
- Strong problem-solving skills and understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building complex, large-scale SaaS solutions using distributed databases and messaging systems.
- Understanding of PKI, certificates, security principles, TCP/IP, HTTP, VPCs, load balancers, and cloud firewalls.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable services, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Experience handling DevOps, availability, and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Experience with Terraform and CloudFormation is preferred.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Fluentd monitoring or logging tools is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with graph databases is preferred.
- Experience working with architects, product managers, and program managers to deliver features on time and with high quality.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship skills.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The posting references employee benefits but does not detail them.
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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.