Principal Software Engineer

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!

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 security risks in application code and infrastructure as code.

We are looking for a tech-savvy Backend-Developer, experienced with developing a code security product and with a variety of technologies and frameworks, such as GCP, Kubernetes, Python, TypeScript, NodeJS, Golang, and Terraform.

Your Impact

• Build code-security products while being part of their research and development.
• 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, Kubernetes, Python, TypeScript, NodeJS, Golang, and Terraform.
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of experience working as a Backend Developer
• Experience with code security product development - application code, security, SCA (Software Composition Analysis). Must
• Experience with Python/Golang/TypeScript
• Live production systems with high-scale
• Independent, an autodidact with excellent problem-solving and a Passion for learning cutting-edge technologies.
• Experience with GCP or any other cloud provider
• An Advantage:
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) - Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience
  
  

Additional Information

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.