Principal Software Engineer (PAN OS Cloud Applications)

About the role

Our Team in the Layer-7 Security Software team is responsible for at least one, often two to three headline features in every PANOS release. Our code reaches many product lines in the company, and is the critical part of delivering the highest revenue licenses the company offers. Our core Application Identification and Content Inspection Engine runs on Hardware, Virtualized, Container and Cloud-delivered firewalls. Any features that require the inspection or extraction of layer-7 network payload depends on our engine. We are also developing the latest Cloud-delivered Layer-7 security infrastructure. We design and develop key innovative security features such as the industry first Machine Learning powered NGFW, Credential Phishing prevention, URL-filtering, Cloud-delivered Data leak protection (DLP), and many more exciting features.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of solutions, ensuring alignment with cross-functional product management and quality assurance teams.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot robust next-generation cloud security solutions to address complex network security challenges.
• Drive the development of scalable cloud security architecture through hands-on coding and strategic architectural planning.
• Manage the full product development lifecycle, from definition and design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate proactively with Product Management, SRE, and Quality Engineering to deliver high-quality security-as-a-service offerings to market.
• Simplify complex technical issues to improve end-customer outcomes by working closely with customer support teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving within the engineering organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field with 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on programming experience in Go or Java, with additional proficiency in Python or C highly valued.
• Proven experience designing and developing high-performance, high-scale distributed software applications in a cloud environment.
• Strong technical proficiency with cloud technologies such as message queue(Kafka/PubSub/Redis), Data Storage(SQL/Bigtable/Redis/Mongo/BigQuery).
• Demonstrated expertise in backend development, including REST APIs, databases, and serverless computing for distributed cloud applications.

Qualifications

• Experience with container orchestration platforms, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comprehensive understanding of public cloud design considerations, including microservice architectures, global network infrastructure, and load balancing.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols and principles.
• Prior experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Skills

• Technical proficiency in cloud technologies.
• Experience with distributed system design and development.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to simplify complex technical issues.

Benefits

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here( opens in new window).

Pay

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

Schedule

Most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed.

Benefits

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com( opens in new window).

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?

Yes