Company Description

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

Job Description

Your Career

Bring your backend java cloud engineering skills to work on the latest cloud software/web applications. Help us design, build, deploy and scale the next generation of cloud security platform. We are looking for a Sr Principal Engineer who loves to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. 

We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

Your Impact

• Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test. Drive features from conception to delivery

• Collaborate closely with the product management, architects and DevOps to achieve quality releases

• Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success

• Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements

• Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

• Interview, mentor and coach junior team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 10+ years or equivalent experience 

• Advanced-level of experience as hands-on Core Java Software Engineer in a distributed/cloud-based product

• Solid experience with Spring framework, Rest API, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes and Docker

• Solid experience with cloud infrastructure & services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure )

• Strong experience and knowledge with micro services, distributed systems, and performance optimization

• Solid experience with database architecture design, including scalability, performance, and resilience

• Solid troubleshooting skills with the ability to mitigate and resolve complex production issues quickly

• Good understanding of data processing pipeline designs – including ingestion, ETL, queries, large scale storage

• Experience with Agile development process and embrace Agile methodologies

• Strong believer of automation tests and strive for higher code coverage

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups

• Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute in a dynamic working environment

• Be a self-starter, able to learn independently and adapt quickly

Additional Information

The Team

The Prisma Cloud Platform Engineering Team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We are building the next generation Platform that will help the customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best-in-class protection.

The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises leverage public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in public cloud. Palo Alto Networks is the market leader in this space.

We are the global cybersecurity leader, known for always challenging the security status quo. Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. This has given us the privilege of safely enabling tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Prisma Cloud emboldens their digital transformation with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in security, automation, and analytics. By delivering a true platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of change-makers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across public clouds.

Prisma® Cloud enables the security and DevOps teams to collaborate — accelerating secure cloud-native application development and deployment.

Prisma Cloud's unmatched capabilities, includes:

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) - Monitor posture, detect and respond to threats, and maintain compliance across public clouds

• Cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) - Secure hosts, containers and serverless functions across the application lifecycle

• Code security - Ship secure code for infrastructure, applications and software supply chain pipelines

• Web Application and API Security (WAAS) - Protect web applications and APIs across cloud-native architectures

• Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) - Take control of permissions across multi cloud environments

• Cloud network security - Gain network visibility, detect network anomalies and enforce segmentation

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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 $170000 - $275000 per year . The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here. 

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