Principal Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS Core Services Backend)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for shared platform services and drive architecture decisions across the Prisma AIRS organization.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable, high-performance backend systems and AI security products.
- Own features end to end across product definition, design, implementation, testing, and production operation.
- Design, build, and operate reliable production security services.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers.
- Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and lead large projects through completion.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and designing large distributed systems and cloud web services.
- Expertise in at least one strongly typed language, including Go, Java, C#, or C++, or modern Python with type hints and Pydantic.
- Experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, or another major public cloud provider.
- Hands-on experience with SQL or NoSQL databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Spanner, BigTable, BigQuery, or MongoDB.
- Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j is highly desired.
- Experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or PubSub queuing systems.
- Experience with microservices architectures and technologies such as Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, or Serverless.
- Experience writing unit and end-to-end tests and troubleshooting production issues through on-call support.
- Preferred qualifications include Terraform, GitLab or GitHub CI/CD pipelines, Grafana, OCI, AI development tools, and familiarity with cybersecurity and software security.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional or military experience.
- Strong project leadership, ownership, communication, collaboration, and self-management skills.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $156,400 to $253,000, with potential restricted stock units and bonus.
- Santa Clara, California headquarters location with an expectation of working in the office three days per week; the role is not remote.
- Immigration sponsorship eligibility is stated for the role.
- Reasonable accommodations are available, and Palo Alto Networks provides equal employment opportunity.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureC#C++DockerGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNeo4jPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQTerraform
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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.