Principal Engineer Software CloudGenix
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is looking for an accomplished engineer with networking data path software experience to fill a Principal Engineering position. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking technologies in the SASE domain. You will work with a multi-functional team of engineers to design and develop systems for solving interesting problems in the SASE area.
Your Impact
- Be a technical lead who can take on core parts of the implementation with autonomy
- Participate in full product release cycles from feature design to version release
- Work in a small and fast paced team to solve important customer problems and deliver most impactful results.
- Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle from definition design through implementation and test
- Proactively identify product features for improvement and innovation
- Innovate new product features based on customer feedback
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- 10 years of experience with a BS or 8 years of experience MS degree in developing system software for data path components in a networking device.
- Strong experience in working with data plane and control plane architectures on networking devices.
- Experience working with packet forwarding mechanisms using DPDK.
- Extremely strong in system design and architecture of networking products involving switching routing and security.
- Experience with Linux system programming (e.g. sockets files shared memory multi-threaded programming/process synchronization).
- Good understanding and working knowledge of Layer 3/ Layer 4 network protocols such as TCP/IP.
- Hands-on experience with Linux networking stack is desired.
- Strong passion and experience in troubleshooting debugging complex systems and possess excellent problem-solving techniques
- Experience with cloud networking technologies is desired.
- Proficiency in C and other languages like python and Go
- Experience with TCP/IP and knowledge of common standard IP protocols such as ARP IP ICMP TCP UDP etc.
Additional Information :
The Team
Our engineering team is at the core of providing world-class SASE solutions. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about SASE. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.
We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.
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 $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 :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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