Principal Engineer Software

Our Mission

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Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Backend Engineer to lead development for Palo Alto Networks leading platforms Prisma Cloud and Cortex this role you will leverage your expertise to solve complex problems and deliver significant value to thousands of customers. You will be a technical leader driving the design and implementation of scalable resilient backend services in a fast-paced production-oriented environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end backend development of features and components through their entire life cycle including design development testing deployment and maintenance.

• Proactively collaborate and exchange information with peers across different geo-teams and disciplines to shape solutions and ensure alignment on product integrations.

• Contribute to team-wide efforts by participating in and leading code reviews design reviews and making critical technical and architectural decisions.

• Apply a production-oriented approach to provide real-time mitigation and solutions to production issues ensuring high availability and system stability.

• Challenge curiously and positively to drive technical innovation and mentor other engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

• Design and develop highly scalable server-side applications focusing on distributed computing principles and microservices architecture.

• Simplify complex systems and processes to improve efficiency and maintainability ensuring solutions are robust and well-documented.

• Define the architecture and implementation strategy for new Data Connectors ensuring scalable fault-tolerant and secure ingestion of configuration and activity data from diverse third-party SaaS APIs.

• Lead the standardization and normalization of data schemas across different SaaS sources to facilitate unified security analysis and policy enforcement.

• Quickly learn and act as the domain expert for data security and privacy ensuring all data handling storage and processing workflows meet strict compliance requirements (e.g. GDPR CCPA SOC 2) in the cloud service.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience including development of scalable highly available server-side applications.

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in any of Go Java NodeJS and/or Python.

• Proven experience with major cloud platforms such as GCP AWS or Azure.

• Strong experience with microservices architecture including Kubernetes (GKE EKS AKS) Docker or Serverless technologies.

• Strong leadership skills with a can-do attitude

• Deep understanding of distributed computing concepts (e.g. CAP theorem master election) and experience with distributed databases/KVP stores (e.g. BigQuery Elasticsearch Kafka RabbitMQ).

• Designing and implementing large-scale data ingestion pipelines from complex third-party SaaS APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.

• Experience with big-data architectures using technologies like Kafka Splunk or Flink.

• Hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure automation and GitOps principles.

• Experience in Cyber Technologies Information Security or Software Security domains.

Our Commitment

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