Sr Staff Software Engineer

Santa Clara, CA, United States

Company Description Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description Your Career

Palo Alto Networks® SaaS Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Staff Software Engineer to help scale out our security platform with a sharp focus on platform and infrastructure capabilities.  As a member of the team, you have the unique opportunity to:

Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings

Lead initiatives in the platform team to deliver security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions

Be expected to lead and participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation, test, and field deployment

Your Impact

Drives the architecture and development for key modules via architecture/design documents and developing key code modules

Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global

Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity- Align solutions with the SaaS Security vision

Lead and/or Influence technology selection for SaaS Security solutions

Partner with Product Managers to define/refine roadmap, discuss trade-offs of key features and architectures,  help them balance features, innovation and tech debt prioritization - Be a “sounding board” for PM ideas, propose new features and innovation ideas

Partner with Devops teams and other peers across the team to develop best-of-breed deployment architectures

Qualifications Your Experience

5+ years of work experience preferably with a Masters  degree (in computer science) or a minimum of 5+ years of work experience or equivalent military experience required

Prior experience as an architect supporting a cloud security product engineering team

Proven track record of successful architecture and design for high transactions and data volume in enterprise and/or consumer facing applications

5+ years of experience in Cloud technologies - GCP plus at least one other cloud provider (Azure, AWS or OCI)

5+ years of experience with large scale cloud applications experience built with one or more these languages - Java, Scala, GoLang, Python

Expert in database technologies (e.g., MemSQL, SQL, Cassandra, etc.), queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Akka streams, etc.) - The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in these technologies

3+ years experience in Apache Spark, data analytics frameworks

Good understanding of security, cloud security domain a plus - Experience with an enterprise security product (on-prem or cloud)

Desired Qualifications

3+ years of experience in building Cloud Security products

Experience building products with ML/AI techniques will be a big plus

5+ years experience to develop APIs (REST) based project using and experience with JSON

5+ years of experience in NoSQL DB (Mongo, Cassandra) and RelationDB

3+ years of experience in ElasticSearch, Redis and Kafka

3+ years of experience in modern containerization (& cloud) technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

3+ years of experience in mentoring junior team members in a high-performing teams

2+ year of experience in AWS/GCP/Azure cloud

Demonstrated ability to work closely with teammates in a highly collaborative environment and simultaneously be a self-starter with strong individual contributions

Big Plus if you have CASB or general SaaS application experience

Big plus if you have experience with data security domain

Additional Information The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $124,600/yr to $150,650/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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