Sr Principal Software Engineer (Internet Security Systems)
- Santa Clara, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.Who We AreWe take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.Job DescriptionYour CareerWe're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for cloud advocates who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.As a key member of our Internet Security Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for designing and developing large scale backend systems. You will participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test. Work closely with security researchers, product managers on new feature requests, QA and DevOps on testing and deployment plans, other engineering teams on all kinds of collaboration.Your Impact
- Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
- Develop key security research infrastructure for researchers and security services
- Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
- Mentor your fellow engineering members
- Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
- Solid CS fundamentals , and networking knowledge including DNS, HTTP, TCP, IP, UDP
- Experience of designing and implementing massive scalable distributed systems
- Expert level programming in Golang, C, C++, or Rust
- Experience of Kubernetes and Containers
- Experience of any public cloud platforms. GCP, AWS, OCI are preferred
- Experience of data processing frameworks such as Spark, Apache Beam, BigQuery, Dataflow
- Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, HBbase/BigTable, Spanner
- Communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal
- BS or MS Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, related to computer security, application security, information security, network security, or cryptography is preferred or equivalent military experience required