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.

Who We Are

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.

Your Career

We are seeking an experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, build, and maintain our cutting edge cloud based, security product Infrastructure, which operates at massive scale and helps protect customers against constantly evolving online threats and attacks.

We want passionate engineers who love to design and code world-class security and networking services on Cloud Providers. Engineers who bring new ideas in all facets of software development, individual contributors who want to expand their skill set, take ownership of their feature areas and who are driven to solve problems at every level. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with others towards achieving a common goal.

Your Impact

• Responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support

• Innovate new product features based on customer, partner, and technical support engineer feedback

• Proactively identify product features for improvement and innovation.

• Design,develop and deploy features which scale and perform well for thousands of customers

• Troubleshoot changes to the product to ensure high-quality output of the product design

• Develop solid understanding and be able to explain advanced Cloud Computing and Cloud Security & Networking concepts to others

• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

Your Experience 

• 15+ years of experience with Strong go getter/can-do attitude

• High energy and the ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment  with Strong collaboration and communications skills

• Experience building highly available, scalable and performant systems 

• Fast learner and eager to absorb new emerging technologies

• Experience with Large Scale Distributed systems with service oriented architecture

• Experience with building and running containerized applications in distributed environments such as Kubernetes Networking and Routing

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in Java and Python programming languages

• Strong Knowledge of distributed computing and programming

• Cloud platforms, such as AWS or GCP, Kubernetes Virtualization, such as ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V

• Experience with messaging infra like Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – 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.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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.