Principal Engineer Software; Big Data

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.

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution.

From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEX Benefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Prisma Access™ (formally Global Protect Cloud Service) provides protection straight from the cloud to make access to the cloud secure. It combines the connectivity and security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next-generation security protection to all cloud services, customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.

We are seeking an experienced Big Data Software Engineer to design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies within our Prisma Access team. We want passionate engineers who love to code and build great products. Engineers who bring new ideas in all facets of software development. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate and work well with others towards achieving a common goal.

This role is located at our Santa Clara, CA headquarters.

• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features on our next-generation security platform as part of our Prisma Access

• Work with different development and quality assurances groups to achieve the best quality

• Suggest and implement improvements to the development process

• Work with Dev Ops and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues

• At least 6+ years of development experience

• Experience in developing services in the cloud/Kubernetes

• Experience with building data pipelines and analytics pipelines using like dataflow, pubsub, GKE

• Strong understanding of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores

• Experience with RESTful interfaces and Build Management tools (Gradle, maven)

• Experience in continuous integration and design

• Experience with Test-Driven Development

• Experience with distributed computing and object-oriented design and analysis

• Strong understanding of microservices-based deployments with the ability to design services

• Showcase your ability of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, peer review, and operations

• Familiarity with Agile (e.g., Scrum Process)

• Familiarity in Big Data technologies like Hive, Kafka, Hadoop, SQL, developing APIs

• Familiarity working with GCP or other Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure

• High energy and the ability…