Principal Engineer Software (Cortex Cloud- Agentless)

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.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Principal Development Engineer in our group, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and building the backbone of our cutting-edge system, which is responsible for agentless workload protection. Your expertise will be essential in establishing a solid foundation using microservices, cloud-native technologies, and other innovative solutions.

You will work on various cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP, allowing scan and deploy of infrastructure to identify cyber threats, create a scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure, implement and optimize various cloud services and platforms and drive the adoption of innovative technologies and industry best practices within the group.

Your Impact

• Feature development! You will own (design, implement, and test) important feature areas in the Cortex Cloud product
• Always on the GO! Develop using Golang
• You are a First-String Starter! You will work in close coordination with the PM and QA teams
• Who knew? You do! Research new technologies and see how they can be adapted to the product
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Your Experience -Proven experience as a backend engineer with at least 8 years of experience - must!
• Computer science or an equivalent degree or equivalent military experience - must!
• A strong passion for software development - must!
• In-depth knowledge of microservices architecture, cloud environments, and cloud-native technologies - must
• Preferred Qualifications - Previous experience in building infrastructure from scratch or migrating legacy systems to microservices architecture
• Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tools like Jenkins or GitLab
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

The team is in charge of deep cloud security within PANW.

We Have Three Principles We Believe In

• Quality - no code enters our codebase without a unit test and no feature is added without an integration test - All tests run (and must pass) on every pull request No code enters the codebase without a code review
• Simplicity - we create a design for every significant feature and we make sure the solution is simple and clear - If it is not, we invest more work to make it simple
• We don’t have code that we are afraid to refactor - any code can be refactored if needed - Once identified we change, test, and ship
  
  

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.