Sr. Python Backend Engineer (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 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 and in infrastructure as code.

You will be leading the development of scalable features and services end-to-end, including complex algorithmic computation. The product has a large customer base and is considered the market leader in infrastructure as code scanning.

Your Impact

• Developing complex features, end-to-end, including reviewing requirements, providing technical design, leading the execution, and deploying to production
• Designing and implementing an architecture that scales, while maintaining quality, when facing environments with thousands of entities
• Learning and utilizing the latest technologies in the market - cloud infrastructure, Serverless, Terraform, TypeScript, NodeJS, SQL, Python, and Golang
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience working as a Backend Developer
• Experience with Python
• Live production systems with high-scale
• Independent, an autodidact with excellent problem-solving and a Passion for learning cutting-edge technologies
• Experience with AWS or any other cloud provider
  
  

Advantage

• Experience with TypeScript / GoLang
• SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) - Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience
  
  

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.