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Sr Software Engineer Wildfire

Job in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, 95053, USA
Listing for: Palo Alto Networks
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 126000 - 204500 USD Yearly USD 126000.00 204500.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Sr Staff Software Engineer Wildfire

Your Career

We are seeking a Software Engineer to develop, build, and maintain our cutting edge cloud based, security product Infrastructure, which operates at massive scale and helps protect customers against constantly evolving online threats and attacks. Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, Wild Fire.

We want passionate engineers who love to design and code world‑class security services on Cloud Providers. Engineers who bring new ideas in all facets of software development, individual contributors who want to expand their skill set, take ownership of their feature areas and who are driven to solve problems at every level.

Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Participate in the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions. 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.

Your

Impact
  • Participate in the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment and support.

  • Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Python, C, Golang code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers.

  • Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions.

  • Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams.

Qualifications Your Experience
  • Hands on experience writing production high quality scalable code in Python, C, Golang keeping performance in mind.

  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.

  • Great design and architecture skills, turning an idea into a production grade design.

  • Very strong knowledge of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.

    • Hands on experience with databases like SQL/No

      SQL and other modern databases is a plus.
  • Experience with writing asynchronous code in multi‑threaded and multi‑processes env.

  • Good to have a cloud‑native service development stack on GCP/AWS or other clouds.

  • Experience with building REST/grpc API services.

  • Writing code with quality in mind from the get go.

  • Experience working with queuing system such as pubsub, Rabbit

    MQ or Kafka.

  • Exposure to using configuration management tools such as argocd, Ansible and/or Terraform.

  • You enjoy working in a collaborative environment.

  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering / Computer science or equivalent military experience required.

  • A plus would be to have 2‑3 years of experience in this role.

Additional Information

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we may be facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. As a predictive enterprise environment, we analyze petabytes of data that pass through our walls daily and we hire the most talented minds in data science to build creative predictive analytics and data science solutions for our cybersecurity solutions.

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 $126000/YR - $204500/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…

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