Principal Engineer Software Networking

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Palo Alto Networks's Advanced DNS Resolver service team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with strong programming skills and extensive background in developing DNS infrastructure products. You will be part of a world‑class software engineering team working on a global DNS resolver service that integrates world class DNS security with highly available and high‑performance DNS resolver. You will enjoy working in a small team and delivering features at a fast pace to production with excellent quality.

• Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
• Collaborate with other cross‑functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
• Participate actively and be a factor in design and development discussions
• Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact

• 7+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development
• Extensive hands‑on (expert level) programming skills in Golang and Python
• Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS, with good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud native services like pubsub, cloud storage and Big Query
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, etc.
• Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following – Grafana / ELK / Cloud monitoring
• In depth understanding of DNS protocols, extensions, DNS resolution infrastructure and ecosystem
• Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, etc
• M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

The ADNS Resolver team is responsible for developing a global secure DNS resolver service for Palo Alto Network customers.

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: $185,000 - $210,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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