Sr Principal Engineer Software

Company Description

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 take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Sr Principal Engineers are:

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders who use their knowledge of industry innovations, trends and practices to architect solutions to complex problems

• Visionaries who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains

• Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo Alto Networks culture

• Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers as well as executives

• Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products

Your Impact

• Thought leadership in driving the technical roadmap and Hands-on participation in developing next generation data processing systems optimized for AI-powered use cases

• Conceptualize, Architect and develop highly efficient multi-cloud data pipelines to process & store multi-tenant data at Petabyte scale to enable AI/ML Applications

• Keep the product updated with best-of-the-times technology in a fast-evolving environment

• Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects

• Recruit and Mentor new team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications with 4+ years experience in technical leadership roles

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in Java

• Extensive hands-on experience in designing, coding, and maintaining distributed systems

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, their services (DataFlow, BQ, Athena etc) and Kubernetes

• Strong knowledge of databases SQL, NoSQL, Time series, GraphDB etc

• Strong leadership and communication skills

Additional Information

The Team

Strata Logging Service Data Platform (SLS) enables AI-based innovations for cybersecurity with the industry's only approach to normalizing and stitching together an enterprise's data. Strata Logging Service can:

• Radically simplify customer security operations by collecting, integrating, and normalizing an enterprise's security data.

• Effortlessly run advanced AI and machine learning with cloud-scale data and compute.

• Constantly learns from new data sources to evolve customer defenses.

SLS is built to benefit from public cloud scale and locations ready for elastic scale, eliminating the need for local compute and storage. SLS has strict privacy and security controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or identifiable information. Its infrastructure is secured with industry-standard best practices for security and confidentiality, including rigorous technical and organizational security controls

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 $170000 - $277000/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 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.