Principal Software Engineer

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we are looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Your Career

The public cloud market has been growing at a rapid rate for the last few years and as more enterprises use public cloud, there is a critical need for creative engineers to help develop software to prevent cyberthreats within the cloud environment. In this role, you will develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems and critical cybersecurity challenges.

You love to code and build exceptional products, and you bring new ideas in all facets of software development. You are someone who is highly technical, understands cloud technologies, and understands the complex world of cloud eco-systems and integrations. You love solving challenges for our customers in complex environments, and you aren’t deterred by the fact that much of this technology just has not been done before. In fact, you like the prospect of the challenge.

Your Impact

• Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Java code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions
• Develop a strong understanding and be able to explain advanced Cloud Computing and Cloud Security concepts to others

• 5 - 12 years of solid experience building web applications in Java/J2EE
• Experience with open-source frameworks/servers (Spring, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat)
• Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g. understanding of lock-free data structures, bloom filters, minimal perfect hashing, consistent hashing, etc.)
• Experience designing, building & operationalising highly scalable & distributed applications
• Experience in designing/building scalable micro-services based architectures and REST APIs.
• Demonstrated experience working with at-least one Public Cloud Service (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba) and invoking their APIs at a high scale.
• Hands-on experience building applications using at-least 1 SQL database and in-memory database.
• Demonstrated experience with at least one messaging system such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS etc.
• Experience in building multithreaded concurrent systems.

The Team

As the leader of the Public Cloud Security team, you will be responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their transitional journey to the cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The cloud market has been growing at a rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises use public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in the public cloud. With our recent acquisition of Prisma Public Cloud, formerly RedLock™ and Evident.io making Palo Alto Networks the reigning market leader.

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.

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