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Principal Software Engineer (Cortex)

Overview
Company Description

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

Cortex XDR is the world’s first detection and response app that natively integrates network, endpoint and cloud data to stop sophisticated attacks. Cortex XDR accurately detects threats with behavioral analytics and reveals the root cause to speed up investigations. Tight integration with enforcement points accelerates containment, enabling you to stop attacks before the damage is done.

We are a SaaS cloud-native application that is using the most advanced and powerful technologies out there to deliver and innovate fast, with attention to details, and quality. We are inventing new products, going on unexplored territories and pushing forward - one of these new territories is figuring out how we can deploy our application on customers’ premises - entering you.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal Software engineer that has experience in building large-scale Kubernetes based on-premises infrastructure. A person who can lead technically and innovate, from whom we can learn and who will be a great team member that we will enjoy working with.

Your Impact

  • Design and build a highly scalable solution, capable of running complex applications on premises
  • Take responsibility and lead the development of multiple components of the system in a dynamic environment
  • Produce elegant and testable code
  • Actively influence the product and the team by being a focal point and knowledge expert in one of the most important components of the product

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Demonstrated experience developing Kubernetes based on premises solutions - Must
  • Experience with data-oriented technologies such as Pub/Sub, Kinesis, Casandra, Redis, BigQuery, Redshift etc - Must
  • Go, Python - big Advantage
  • Knowledge of Networking and Operating Systems fundamentals - big advantage
  • Experience with cloud computing technologies (GCP preferred) - advantage
  • A motivated, problem solver with a great attitude towards work and people
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Additional Information

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.

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.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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

Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Palo Alto Networks