Sr Principal Engineer Software
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$184k - $297k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as an acknowledged technical leader and consultant across engineering teams.
- Lead projects through requirements gathering, design, implementation, and delivery while acting as a project lead or mentor.
- Align planned product work with product management, UX design, and engineering stakeholders.
- Identify and solve complex technical problems across shared infrastructure and the product.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable data models and queries using MySQL, Spanner, and BigQuery.
- Develop business logic and API endpoints with Python and FastAPI and build high-performance backend services with Go.
- Identify and mitigate project risks to support smooth execution and high-quality results.
- Mentor and empower engineers across the department.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
- 14+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on distributed, cloud-native application development.
- Expert-level programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, with experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Extensive experience with cloud development, databases, serverless computing, and microservices architectures.
- Hands-on technical leadership or architecture experience on complex software projects.
- Preferred: 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as BigQuery and Google Pub/Sub or similar.
- Preferred: deep understanding of public cloud design, security, global network infrastructure, and load balancing.
Benefits
- The role is primarily office-based, with flexibility when needed.
- The role is eligible for immigration sponsorship.
- Benefits may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base compensation.
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.