Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
The Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team is at the core of Palo Alto Networks' products, delivering top-tier security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. This team is dedicated to continuous innovation and challenging industry norms in cybersecurity. The Principal Software Engineer will play a crucial role in designing and implementing Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features, participating in all phases of the product development lifecycle. This includes working on the cutting-edge malware detection platform, WildFire, and leading the redesign of its architecture using cloud-native solutions on GCP. The role involves introducing microservices to handle high rates of sample submissions, writing code, staying updated with best practices, and driving the adoption of new technologies. The engineer will craft robust distributed systems, articulate technical visions, and ensure alignment with business goals.
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
Benefits
- Restricted stock units
- Bonus
- Employee benefits may be found here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
