Architect / Sr Principal Backend Engineer (Prisma CAS)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your well-being support to your growth and development, and beyond!

Job Description

Your Career

CAS (Cloud Application Security) is the cloud security platform for developers. By leveraging automation and delivering security-as-code, CAS empowers teams to find, fix, and prevent misconfigurations in deployed cloud resources, infrastructure as code, secrets, open source packages, images, and CI/CD pipelines.

We are looking for a talented Principal Engineer to join our Security Engines group. You will take part in building the most advanced cloud security analysis platform in the market.

Your Impact

• As a Principal Engineer, you will take part in building the most advanced cloud security platform in the market
• Lead the technical aspects of the engines group while working with other leading developers
• Hands on work on business critical and challenging projects, POC initiatives etc.
• Collect and prioritize technical requirements and transform them into a deliverable roadmap
• Be an integral part of technical discussions and architecture designs
• Lead our open source community (https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov)
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6+ years of experience working as a Backend Developer
• 4+ years of experience in Python
• 4+ years Cloud experience (Preferable AWS)
• 2+ years of leading cross teams technical initiatives
• Experience with live production systems with high scale
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) - Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.- advantages
• 2+ years of JavaScript & TypeScript - advantages
• Independent, autodidact with excellent problem solving and passion to learn cutting edge technologies
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. 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 that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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 [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.