Principal Engineer Software (Advanced DNS Resolver)

Palo Alto Networks • Office - USA - CA - Headquarters, CA

8d • $147,000 - $237,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks's network security group is looking for a Software Engineer with excellent programming skills, and experience in developing high performance networking software on cloud platforms. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team working on Advanced DNS Resolver products. You will enjoy working in a small team and delivering features at a fast pace to production with excellent quality.

Requirements

• 7+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development
• Extensive hands-on (expert level) programming skills in Golang and Python
• Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS, with good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud native services like pubsub, cloud storage and Big Query
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, etc.
• Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following - Grafana / ELK / Cloud monitoring.
• Experience in developing high performance Networking application code, and familiar with protocols like DNS, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS.
• M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Responsibilities

• Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
• Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions
• Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact

Benefits

• bonus
• restricted stock units

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal