Sr Principal Software Engineer - SASE AI​/ML

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 on 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.

As a Sr Principal Software Engineer within the Engineering team, you will drive the technical leadership and end‑to‑end delivery of next‑generation solutions. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design, implement, and troubleshoot high‑scale distributed systems, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our network security architecture. This role offers the opportunity to innovate at the intersection of cloud technology and cybersecurity, delivering impactful offerings that protect our digital way of life.

• Provide technical leadership for the end‑to‑end delivery of solutions, ensuring alignment with cross‑functional Product Management and Quality Assurance teams.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot robust next‑generation cloud security solutions to address complex network security challenges.
• Drive the development of scalable cloud security architecture through hands‑on coding and strategic architectural planning.
• Manage the full product development lifecycle, from definition and design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate proactively with Product Management, SRE, and Quality Engineering to deliver high‑quality security‑as‑a‑service offerings to market.
• Simplify complex technical issues to improve end‑customer outcomes by working closely with customer support teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation, intellectual curiosity, and problem‑solving within the engineering organization.
• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and data ingestion on our next‑generation security platform as part of our Strata Cloud Manager.
• Work with different development and quality assurances groups to achieve the best quality.
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development process.
• Work with Dev Ops and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues.

• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent field.
  • 10 years of relevant software engineering experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on programming experience in Python or Java, with additional proficiency in Go.
• Technical Expertise (Distributed Systems and Cloud):
  • Proven experience designing and developing high‑performance, high‑scale distributed software…