Principal Engineer Software (Advanced DNS Resolver)

About Us

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. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have.

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.

About the Role

Palo Alto Networks's network security group is looking for a Software Engineer with excellent programming skills and experience in developing high-performance networking software on cloud platforms. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team working on Advanced DNS Resolver products. You will enjoy working in a small team and delivering features at a fast pace to production with excellent quality.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
• Collaborate with other cross-functional teams to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable, and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions
• Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations
• Troubleshoot issues in the production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce impact

Requirements

• 7+ years of solid experience in programming, design, and development
• Extensive hands-on (expert-level) programming skills in Golang and Python
• Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS, with a good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud-native services like pubsub, cloud storage, and Big Query
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as GitLab
• Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following: Grafana, ELK, or Cloud monitoring
• Experience in developing high-performance networking application code and familiarity with protocols like DNS, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS
• M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Pay

The starting base salary for this position is expected to be in the range of $147,000.00 - $237,500.00 per year, depending on qualifications, experience, and work location. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

Benefits

A description of our employee benefits may be found here.