Job Description

Your Career

As a key member of our Internet Security Platform team, you will be responsible for designing and developing large-scale backend systems. You will participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation, and testing. Work closely with security researchers, data scientists, product managers on new feature requests, QA and DevOps on testing and deployment plans, and other engineering teams on all kinds of collaboration..

Your Impact

• Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems

• Develop key security research infrastructure for researchers and security services

• Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects

• Mentor your fellow engineering members

• Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding, and performance tuning

• Push engineering boundaries, coming up with high-quality, simple solutions to complex engineering and product problems

• Maintain and cultivate high quality in terms of engineering practices, code quality, and work/foster a culture of engineering excellence, and dynamic execution

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field required

• Creative thinker and team player, with good communication skills and a desire to make a difference.

• Solid CS fundamentals, as well as networking and operating systems knowledge

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in Python and Golang. Competent in Java.

• Strong grasp on designing complex systems

• Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms

• Experience with Cloud Native environment: Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, etc

• Experience with any public cloud platform, GCP preferred

• Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Redis

• Experience with queuing systems like PubSub, RabbitMQ, or Kafka

• Experience with web crawling and LLM is a plus

• Knowledge of web development technologies such as JavaScript or React is a plus

Additional Information

The Team

We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for cloud advocates who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

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 $120,000 - $203,000/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.