Sr Principal Software Engineer

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! 

Your Career

We're seeking innovators - software engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love 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 engineers 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.

Unit 42 has best-in-industry security consultants and threat researches to support enterprises and organizations through their cybersecurity journeys. You will build software solutions to supercharge cybersecurity consultants, helping automate the collection, analysis and reporting of services. You will also develop applications to help find, extract, and structure threat intel for use across the Unit 42 and Palo Alto Networks ecosystem.

Your Impact

• We are looking for an engineer to help build a scalable and performant micro service based architecture with public and private APIs
• Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Design robust technical solutions to business problems, with a high focus on quality and execution
• Help design and build systems from scratch and implement processes to ensure modularity, efficiency and maintainability
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support
• Define, suggest and implement improvements to the development process
• Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Mentor, coach and help grow a strong technical team

Your Experience

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience, Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred or equivalent military experience required
• 10+ years of experience with web back-end frameworks and Go and/or Java
• Familiar with database architecture, scalability, performance, and tuning
• 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building user-facing web applications or services back-end
• Experience designing/building scalable RESTful API’s
• Develop, troubleshoot and maintain production level application code for new services and products
• Understand the value of iterating fast; learning from small, safe, frequent changes
• Experience with cloud infrastructure & services (AWS / Google Cloud / Azure )
• Experience developing Software as a Service on a public cloud & microservice architectures
• A focus on quality, with experience writing unit tests and collaborating with quality engineering to develop test plans
• Is agile, enjoys the speed of a fast-paced, highly engaged startup environment, curious, and constantly seeks to improve standards as we go along 
• Has a belief in automation, tooling, and testing as critical parts of the software lifecycle
• Verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups
• Teammate who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment

The Team

Unit 42 brings together our world-renowned threat researchers with an elite team of security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response ready organization. 

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 $170000 - $277000/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