Principal Software Engineer - (SASE)

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 believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks's SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) group is looking for an accomplished Principal Software Engineer with networking background with extensive development experience to fill a position on the Prisma SASE team. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking technologies in the SASE domain. You will work with a multi-functional team of engineers to design and develop systems  for solving interesting problems in the SASE  area.

Your Impact

• Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support

• Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure

• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers

• Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions

• Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations

• Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact

Your Experience 

• 10+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development

• Strong grasp on designing complex systems and on data structures and algorithms

• Experience of using cloud native functionalities/services using API/plugins 

• Extensive hands-on (expert level) programming skills in Go, Python, Java, C/C++

• Experience in developing solutions in using Docker, and cloud environments such as Kubernetes, GCP/OCI/AWS lambda and related cloud services

• Experience in building multithreaded concurrent and distributed systems that can scale in production environments

• Exposure to CICD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, Jenkins etc.

• Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following - Grafana / ELK / New Relic / Datadog / Splunk

• Strong knowledge of databases BQ, Neo4j/graph-db, SQL, noSQL.

• Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, IPSec, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL etc

• Network infrastructure, Firewall, Load balancing concepts and Security implementations is a plus

• Experience in telemetry data monitoring (log, metrics and traces) from source devices and applications and visualizations is a plus

• M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of providing cutting-edge cloud-delivered security solutions to our huge customer base. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about network security. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives. We look for engineers who thrive in dynamic environments and high-paced small teams to deliver the solutions that make a difference to our customers.

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 $173,000 - $237,500/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.