Principal Software Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Your Career As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test. Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions. The Team We are the Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team. We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity.

Requirements

Hands-on, principal level software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems
Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang
Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes
Demonstrated experience working with Public Cloud Services such as AWS or GCP and designing cloud-native solutions
Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
Experience with data infrastructure platforms
Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal.
Experience in leading and doing big projects end to end
Excellent communication and collaboration skills required.
BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

Responsibilities

Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
Design and implement real-time security services to our customers
Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native GCP solutions
Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
Mentoring junior developers