Sr Staff Engineer Software (Prisma Access)

Your Career

Prisma Access (formally GlobalProtect Cloud Service) provides protection straight from the cloud to make access to the cloud secure. It combines the connectivity and security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next-generation security protection to all cloud services customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.

As a Sr Staff Software Engineer -  you will build and design distributed backend services that are the backbone of our platform. You will need to think wide about all system components and will need to consider the trade-offs with every design decision you make.

You will work with the latest technologies and development methodologies to achieve the best outcomes.
This is a unique opportunity to join very early and take charge of new product architecture and build it from scratch.

Your Impact

• Design scalable system architectures participate in team-wide initiatives and deliver immediate resolutions to production challenges to guarantee a seamless user experience.
• Write clean testable readable scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Actively guide testing of critical components in the product taking into account complex considerations of multiple platforms performance supportability maintainability and much more
• Collaborate  closely with the Product management Development Quality Assurance SRE  and Customer support teams
• Contribute to a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution quality and speed
• Write design documents software development guidelines and best practices
• Provide mentorship and coaching to team members to foster their professional growth.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 8 years experience in building complex high scale SaaS solutions - Preferably experienced in Golang
• Passion for software engineering and coding energetic and eager to create and outperform
• Experience in developing cloud distributed applications and cloud infrastructures
• Strong computer science fundamentals and understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Proven record designing and implementing scalable REST APIs services and data pipelines
• Hands-on experience using SQL/NoSQL based databases
• Understanding of microservices-based deployments with the ability to introduce  monitoring/tracing of application logs (e.g. Splunk) from inception
• Experience handling Devops SRE availability and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product
• Some experience with running complex workloads on cloud-based architectures on one or more cloud platforms such as AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes and their technologies (Lambda functions SNS/SQS etc.)
• B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. 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.

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 $126000/YR - $204500/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