Sr. Principal Software Engineer - Network Security - PanOS Dev

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Engineering - Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions.

We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

We are seeking innovative engineers to design and develop security features for our next-generation firewalls. As a key member of the Layer-7 Security group, you will take ownership of your focus areas, applying your programming skills to solve real-world security problems. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams including product management, quality assurance, and field support throughout the entire software development cycle.

This role requires a drive to build global products and a passion for bringing new ideas to the security discipline.

• Architect & Implement:
  Design, build, and maintain real-time, high-throughput security services and networking infrastructure.
• Technical Leadership:
  Lead complex engineering projects end-to-end—from initial architecture and design reviews to deployment and production monitoring.
• Operational Excellence:
  Promote engineering best practices, including secure coding standards, comprehensive code reviews, performance tuning, and robust system architecture.
• Elevate Systems Ownership:
  Architect and own critical control-plane and data-plane components for the Global Protect server infrastructure, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalable performance
• Advanced Troubleshooting:
  Diagnose and resolve complex server-side and network-level issues independently, even when presented with minimal diagnostic information.
• Test Automation & Quality:
  Drive a culture of quality by advocating for aggressive automated testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and high code coverage.
• AI-Driven Productivity:
  Leverage AI-assisted development techniques and tools to maximize coding efficiency, streamline debugging, and accelerate project delivery.

• Experience & Industry Background: 10+ years of professional software development experience in the enterprise networking or cybersecurity industry.
• Core…