Principal Engineer Software (Backend Development)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

As part of the IoT security cloud infrastructure team, you will be building our state of the art realtime
data analytics system and high performance serving systems. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto
Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to
solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are
motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve
incredible complex cyberthreats.

Your Impact

• Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed services for IoT security
  products to exchange IoT intelligences and extend system functionality through integrations
  with third party systems like ServiceNow, SIEMs and Cisco/ISE etc.
• Design and implement the highly scalable and high performance services to support IoT
  devices’ operational technology support
• Design and implement IoT Security Web Service APIs using NodeJS and SQL/Nosql
  database technology to provide key metrics and analytics for IoT devices
• Design and implement algorithms for ZingBox event connector and inspector management
  services to transfer customer network data into the cloud for storage and analytics at scale
• Design and implement data pipeline to support IoT security features like device Identification,
  alert publishing, and device status tracking

Your Experience 

• Must have BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8~10 years software development experience or equivalent military experience required
• Must have 5+ years of working experience with Amazon AWS, Google GCP or MS Azure
• Must have 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving system
• Must have 8~10 years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python
• Must have experience with Linux and Shell scripting
• Must have good communication skills
• Must have great problem-solving skills
• Prefer knowledge of MongoDB, Kafka/firehose, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions.
• Prefer knowledge of Network domain
• Prefer experiences in building real-time analytics systems or machine learning systems
• Good to have experience in Single Sign On (SSO) integration, Graph Data Lakehouse

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t 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/YR - $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

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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  [email protected].

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?: Yes