Principal Engineer Software ( Prisma Access)
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Your Career
We are hiring a Principal Engineer who can build scalable platform capabilities and shape engineering strategy. This role blends full stack development with platform engineering. You will design and deliver internal platforms developer tools and services that improve engineering velocity across the company. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with broad impact.
Your Impact
- Lead architecture and development of platform services and Infrastructure tooling
- Build and extend internal developer portals (Backstage or similar) to improve discoverability service onboarding and operational visibility
- Design and deliver backend services and APIs that are secure reliable and easy to maintain
- Improve developer workflows across CI/CD environment provisioning and cloud automation
- Work across teams to define platform standards and enforce best practices
- Debug deep issues across distributed systems networking Kubernetes and application layers
- Mentor engineers influence architecture direction and improve engineering quality
- Drive simplification and automation across the platform stack
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- 10 years of software engineering experience including 3 years in senior/staff/principal roles
- Strong experience as a full stack engineer (TypeScript/React on frontend Go/Python backend)
- Hands-on experience building or customizing Backstage or similar internal developer portals
- Expertise in platform engineering internal platforms APIs developer experience systems
- Strong foundation in distributed systems and microservice architecture
- Experience with Kubernetes Docker and modern cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS)
- Proven track record building CI/CD systems and improving engineering delivery
- Familiarity with observability (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry etc.)
- Experience influencing cross-team engineering decisions and driving technical strategy
Nice to Have
- Experience building developer platforms as a product
- Plugin development experience for Backstage
- Experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation
- Service mesh experience (Istio/ASM etc.)
- Experience at a platform-focused startup or large-scale cloud environment
Additional Information :
The Team
You will be part of a growing passionate and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects centered on what we believe is one of the most significant mission statements in the world. We also strive to be the most people-centric company ever! That means were constantly working to make your experience amazing and you are part of the team breaking boundaries of what the workplace can be!
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 non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $173000 - $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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in hi ... View more
