Full-Time Sr Principal Software Engineer
Palo Alto Networks is hiring a remote Full-Time Sr Principal Software Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Manager and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Your Career
We're seeking innovators - software 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 engineers 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.
Unit 42 has best-in-industry security consultants and threat researches to support enterprises and organizations through their cybersecurity journeys. You will build software solutions to supercharge cybersecurity consultants, helping automate the collection, analysis and reporting of services. You will also develop applications to help find, extract, and structure threat intel for use across the Unit 42 and Palo Alto Networks ecosystem.
Your Impact
- We are looking for an engineer to help build a scalable and performant micro service based architecture with public and private APIs
- Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
- Design robust technical solutions to business problems, with a high focus on quality and execution
- Help design and build systems from scratch and implement processes to ensure modularity, efficiency and maintainability
- Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support
- Define, suggest and implement improvements to the development process
- Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
- Mentor, coach and help grow a strong technical team
Your Experience
- B.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience, Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred or equivalent military experience required
- 10+ years of experience with web back-end frameworks and Go and/or Java
- Familiar with database architecture, scalability, performance, and tuning
- 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building user-facing web applications or services back-end
- Experience designing/building scalable RESTful API’s
- Develop, troubleshoot and maintain production level application code for new services and products
- Understand the value of iterating fast; learning from small, safe, frequent changes
- Experience with cloud infrastructure & services (AWS / Google Cloud / Azure )
- Experience developing Software as a Service on a public cloud & microservice architectures
- A focus on quality, with experience writing unit tests and collaborating with quality engineering to develop test plans
- Is agile, enjoys the speed of a fast-paced, highly engaged startup environment, curious, and constantly seeks to improve standards as we go along
- Has a belief in automation, tooling, and testing as critical parts of the software lifecycle
- Verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups
- Teammate who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment