Principal Software Engineer; NetSec- PanOS Dev Santa Clara, California,

Job Summary

As a Principal Software Engineer within the Engineering team, you will drive the technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of next-generation cloud security 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 security-as-a-service 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field with 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on programming experience in Go or Java, with additional proficiency in Python or C highly valued.
• Proven experience designing and developing high‑performance, high‑scale distributed software applications in a cloud environment.
• Strong technical proficiency with cloud technologies such as message queue (Kafka/Pub Sub/Redis), Data Storage (SQL/Bigtable/Redis/Mongo/Big Query).
• Demonstrated expertise in backend development, including REST APIs, databases, and serverless computing for distributed cloud applications.

• Experience with container orchestration platforms, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comprehensive understanding of public cloud design considerations, including microservice architectures, global network infrastructure, and load balancing.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols and principles.
• Prior experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.