Principal Software Engineer — Cloud Threat Intelligence

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Threat Intelligence Services in the Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team. You will design and implement cloud-native security features for public and private clouds, including the malware detection platform WildFire, and help scale architecture in GCP, AWS, or Azure.

You will write code, drive technical vision, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with product managers, architects, and DevOps to deliver

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 7+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required.
• Hands-on, software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems.
• Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang.
• Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions.
• Experience in leading and doing projects end to end.
• Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Experience with data infrastructure platforms.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery.
• Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub.
• Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage.
• Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute.

Responsibilities

• Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems.
• Design and implement real-time security services to our customers.
• Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects.
• Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases.
• Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements.
• Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native solutions.
• Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning.
• Mentoring junior developers.

Skills

Python

GoLang

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud platforms

SQL

NoSQL

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Automation

Code quality

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Threat Intelligence Services in the Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team. You will design and implement cloud-native security features for public and private clouds, including the malware detection platform WildFire, and help scale architecture in GCP, AWS, or Azure.

You will write code, drive technical vision, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with product managers, architects, and DevOps to deliver