Principal Engineer Software (Backend Development)

Palo Alto Networks

Principal Engineer Software (Backend Development)

Santa Clara, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Your Career

    As part of the IoT security cloud infrastructure team, you will be building our state of the art realtime
    data analytics system and high performance serving systems. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto
    Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to
    solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are
    motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve
    incredible complex cyberthreats.

    Your Impact

    • Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed services for IoT security
      products to exchange IoT intelligences and extend system functionality through integrations
      with third party systems like ServiceNow, SIEMs and Cisco/ISE etc.

    • Design and implement the highly scalable and high performance services to support IoT
      devices’ operational technology support

    • Design and implement IoT Security Web Service APIs using NodeJS and SQL/Nosql
      database technology to provide key metrics and analytics for IoT devices

    • Design and implement algorithms for ZingBox event connector and inspector management
      services to transfer customer network data into the cloud for storage and analytics at scale

    • Design and implement data pipeline to support IoT security features like device Identification,
      alert publishing, and device status tracking

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Your Experience

    • Must have BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8~10 years software development experience
    • Must have 5+ years of working experience with Amazon AWS, Google GCP or MS Azure
    • Must have 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving system
    • Must have 8~10 years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python
    • Must have experience with Linux and Shell scripting
    • Must have good communication skills
    • Must have great problem-solving skills
    • Prefer knowledge of MongoDB, Kafka/firehose, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions.
    • Prefer knowledge of Network domain
    • Prefer experiences in building real-time analytics systems or machine learning systems
    • Good to have experience in Single Sign On (SSO) integration, Graph Data Lakehouse

    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.

    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 $147000 - $237500/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.