Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team - We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test.

Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, Wild Fire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.

You’re hands‑on and comfortable writing code. You keep up with best practices and have a breadth of experience with different languages and frameworks. You’re passionate about code quality and automation. You're comfortable driving the implementation and adoption of new frameworks, tools and technologies. You’re comfortable crafting robust distributed systems that achieve both short and long‑term business goals. You have the ability to articulate a clear technical vision.

• 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

• 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, Go Lang
• 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, Big Table, Big Query
• Experience with the queuing system such as Rabbit
  
  MQ or Kafka or Pub Sub
• Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
• Can‑do attitude on problem‑solving, quality and ability to execute

• 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 Dev Ops workflow
• Experience with REST API design, development, and consumption, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

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/com‑missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

A description of our employee benefits may be found here ().

$ - $/yr

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?:
Yes