Senior Staff Engineer, Vulnerability Experience Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 237,500; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team. This role focuses on building unified vulnerability and exposure management experiences within XSIAM, visualizing, prioritizing and remediating posture security problems in customer environments.

You will design and implement features, participate in architecture, collaborate with engineering teams, promote best practices, and take ownership from

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a professional software engineer.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experienced and opinionated about software development and best practices across backend and frontend.
• Able to switch between research, design, prototype, and implementation.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (eg GCP, AWS, or Azure), preferably GCP.
• Experience with CI/CD process.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Technical team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the features for the unified vulnerability and exposure management experience
• Take part in architecture strategy sessions - design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various groups across Cortex
• Collaborate with teams to solve problems, reduce technical debt, and evolve development practices
• Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering org
• Collaborate with other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output
• Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production
• Be a champion of test-driven development

Skills

Python

Backend development

Frontend development

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Problem solving

Technical leadership

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab Runners

Grafana

Prometheus

StackDriver

BigQuery

Job description

Palo Alto Networks in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team. This role focuses on building unified vulnerability and exposure management experiences within XSIAM, visualizing, prioritizing and remediating posture security problems in customer environments.

You will design and implement features, participate in architecture, collaborate with engineering teams, promote best practices, and take ownership from