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Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Management)

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 · Santa Clara, CA · Yesterday
Engineering$170k–$277k/yrFull-time

About the role

This role will collaborate closely with senior engineers and, in some cases, operate independently to deliver security posture-related features in partnership with Product Line Management (PLM). The engineer will be responsible for the end-to-end development lifecycle, including:

  • Requirements analysis
  • Technical design
  • Implementation
  • QA collaboration
  • Release and deployment
  • Ongoing maintenance and operational support

The role may also involve occasional customer interactions for production support.

Responsibilities

Consistent delivery of high-quality features within planned timelines.

Effective collaboration and influence across Product Line Management (PLM) and Quality Assurance (QA) teams.

Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks within a fast-paced development environment with ongoing CI/CD release cadence.

Requirements

  • Strong programming and scripting skills (Golang, Python, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of infrastructure and cloud environments (experience with Kubernetes infrastructure context and Google Cloud Platform preferred, AWS experience acceptable)
  • Hands-on experience developing and operating cloud-based services
  • Demonstrated willingness and ability to leverage AI tools and agents to improve productivity across research, design, implementation, and operational support activities
  • Experience with observability frameworks and operational monitoring for cloud-native services (metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting)

Qualifications

  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate both high-level system architecture and detailed technical design
  • Strong analytical thinking with close attention to implementation details
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

Skills

  • Security domain knowledge: familiarity with security best practices, risk assessment, and common threat models
  • Configuration schema expertise: experience working with configuration schemas such as JSON, YAML, or XML, especially in the context of security policy enforcement
  • Understanding of security policies, access control models, and configuration profiles across operating systems, cloud environments, and enterprise applications

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$170,000.00 - $277,000.00/yr

Schedule

Not specified

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?

Yes

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