Principal Software Engineer (Threat Intelligence)
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Your Career
The Cortex Threat Intelligence team is growing and were looking for a Principal Software Engineerto join our team. This team builds the systems that transform raw signals into trusted timely intelligence for security teams. Your work will shape a platform that delivers clear actionable insights to help prevent attacks and accelerate response.
As a Principal Software Engineer on this team you will contribute to the entire development lifecycle of our systems from architecture and implementation to testing deployment and operation. You will design and scale distributed systems build high-throughput ingestion pipelines and APIs that transform raw signals into trustworthy intelligence across Cortex.
Your Impact
Design build and maintain the core services and data pipelines.
Take part in architecture strategy sessionswork with your colleagues to design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various modules across Cortex.
Collaborate with your team to solve problems reduce technical debt and evolve development practices.
Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering organization.
Collaborate with other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output.
Take ownership of projects drive them to completion and support them in production.
Qualifications :
Your Experience
Were looking for a seasoned engineer with:
5 years of professional experience in software engineering with a proven track record of designing developing deploying and supporting complex scalable software systems.
Proficiency in Python and Go programming languages.
Extensive experience with API design and development including RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL processes.
Ability to lead across research design prototyping and implementation phases.
Expertise with software development best practices including CI/CD automated testing and agile methodologies.
Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (GCP AWS or Azure) preferably GCP.
Proven experience driving design and implementation of technical solutions in the face of ambiguitywe will ask you about this.
Proven technical team leadership and interest in mentoring other engineers in order to contribute to the technical growth of the team.
Nice To Haves:
Experience with or interest in frontend development.
Experience in Threat Intelligence.
Experience in building Cybersecurity products.
Additional Information :
The Team
Cortex Threat Intelligence transforms our Unit 42 expertise and global telemetry into precise timely intelligence that powers detection prevention and investigation across the Cortex platform. Your work will help safeguard critical missions by delivering intelligence that is clear actionable and timely.
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 - $225000/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
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
