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Job Description
Your Career
We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex backend engineering group. Be at the forefront of cloud security innovation as a backend engineer on our team. You will design develop and maintain the core backend infrastructure for Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud Platform and its Cloud Security Posture features directly impacting the security of our customers cloud environments. We are looking for candidates with a cando attitude who are passionate about complex problems and thrive on bringing value to thousands of customers.
Your Impact
As a Principal Engineer on the team you will:
Work across team boundaries
Drive projects from requirements to design and implementation as project lead
Align key stakeholders including product management UX design and fellow engineering stakeholders
Proactively review design identify risks and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth
Mentor engineers across the department
Regularly provide crossteam technical collaboration and consultation
Design build and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
Qualifications :
Your Experience
7 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on cloudnative application development at large organizations or innovative startups
Strong programming skills in one of Python Go or Java
Experience with distributed systems architecture and design
Experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch Pubsub etc.
Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved
Experience with cloud development (REST APIs Databases Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications
Experience with building and delivering services and workflows at scale leveraging microservices architectures
Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures security global network infrastructure distributed systems and load balancing
Experience with the agile process and working with software development teams involved with building out full stack products deployed on the cloud at scale
Experience as a handson tech lead / architect
Cando attitude and ability to make tradeoff judgements with data driven decision making
High energy and the ability to work in a fastpaced environment
Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communications skills
Experience building UI with React or Angular is a plus (not required)
BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical degree
Additional Information :
Compensation Disclosure
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 nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000 $237500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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 .
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
