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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer for our Tel Aviv R&D center. As a Principal software engineer within our team, you play a pivotal role in driving cross-organizational impact by spearheading the development of the core of our advanced system, which safeguards cloud-native workloads and provide Real-Time cyber defense for servers, k8s clusters, serverless offering and more.

Your crucial role goes beyond development, involving your position as a technical expert who offers guidance and support to fellow team members while also leading entire product areas as a tech-lead.

You'll be actively contributing to the development of Prisma Cloud, our Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), designed to secure cloud-based applications across the major cloud providers. You will be part of the Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) group working on real-time detection, alerting, prevention and remediation of global cyber-attacks in both Linux and Windows environments.

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Your Impact

• Find and implement innovative solutions to counter cyberattacks which involve real time detection, alerting, prevention and remediation capabilities
• Leading end-to-end development of both our runtime security agent and backend service
• Utilize cutting-edge Linux kernel technologies such as eBPF / fanotify / PTrace/ LSM
• Work closely with experienced engineers, architects, security researchers and product managers
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software and Computer Engineering, or equivalent military experience required
• Extensive knowledge of Linux internals
• Cloud development experience
• Proven experience with multi-threaded distributed application development
  
  

Preferred

• Familiarity with multiple Linux distributions (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc)
• Experience with containers, docker, k8s and serverless technologies
• Experience in eBPF technology
• Experience in Go Language
• Experience with security related technologies and/or Linux Security modules (SecureBoot, SELinux, AppArmor, etc)
• Experience in Linux kernel programming
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

Join our dynamic team where innovation and collaboration thrive. Experience a workplace that fosters personal and professional growth, providing opportunities to take ownership of your career journey. Embrace the cutting edge of technology as we encourage professional work in software engineering, particularly in the cloud domain. Make a real impact in the security domain, contributing to solutions that directly benefit and protect our valued customers.

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.

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.

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