Principal Data Platform Engineer for AI Security (GCP)

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California; Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking experienced engineers to design and build state-of-the-art data platforms and high-performance data services for AI security products. We value ownership, collaboration, and the ability to lead across multi-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Join the AIRS data platform team and help solve real-world cyber threats with cutting-edge technology while contributing to a culture that emphasizes innovation, impact, and inclusion.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8–10 years of software development experience.
• 8+ years of working experience with Google GCP.
• 8+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving systems.
• 8–10 years of software development experience with NodeJS/Java/Python.
• Experience with Linux and Shell scripting.
• Good communication skills; strong problem-solving abilities.
• Dev experience of SQL databases, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the highly scalable data platform as the center of AI security products.
• Design and implement high-performance data query services to support AI security products.
• Design and implement a framework for self-service of data jobs with monitoring, scheduling and error handling.
• Design and implement a framework for self-service of streaming data and syncing data among different storage systems.

Skills

GCP

Distributed systems

NodeJS/Java/Python

Linux scripting

Communication

Problem solving

Data warehousing

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Redis

Spark

Redshift

SQL databases

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking experienced engineers to design and build state-of-the-art data platforms and high-performance data services for AI security products. We value ownership, collaboration, and the ability to lead across multi-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Join the AIRS data platform team and help solve real-world cyber threats with cutting-edge technology while contributing to a culture that emphasizes innovation, impact, and inclusion.