Principal Software Engineer

Palo Alto Networks•San Jose, CA

27d•Onsite

About The Position

The Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team is at the core of Palo Alto Networks' products, delivering security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. This team is constantly innovating and challenging the industry's approach to cybersecurity. The Principal Software Engineer will play a key role in the design and implementation of Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features, participating in all phases of the product development lifecycle. The role involves working on the WildFire malware detection platform, participating in the design, deployment, and scaling of the architecture using cloud-native solutions on GCP, and leading the redesign to introduce microservices for high sample submission rates. The ideal candidate is hands-on, comfortable writing code, stays updated with best practices, has experience with various languages and frameworks, is passionate about code quality and automation, and can drive the adoption of new technologies. They should be comfortable crafting robust distributed systems and articulating a clear technical vision.

Requirements

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 7+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
Hands-on, 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
Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions
Experience in leading and doing projects end to end
Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
Experience with data infrastructure platforms
Hands-on 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
Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute

Nice To Haves

Exposure to using AI tools and technologies for productivity and building AI agents
Knowledge of AI/ML pipelines, Data Science principles, and related technologies.
Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal.
Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
Experience with REST API design, development, and consumption, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

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 solutions
Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
Mentoring junior developers