Principal Engineer Software; DLP

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real‑world problems with cutting‑edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real‑world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real‑time problem‑solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Bring your backend java cloud engineering skills to work on the latest cloud software/web applications. Help us deploy and scale the next generation of cloud security utilizing big data and Analytics. We are looking for a Sr Staff Engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Our DLP service is the industry's first cloud‑delivered Enterprise DLP that consistently protects sensitive data across all networks, clouds and users.

This fast‑growing cloud service prevents data breaches by identifying sensitive data consistently throughout the entire enterprise. It also guarantees that your data security strategy adheres to compliance and data privacy regulations. This role will also give you an unrivaled opportunity to build micro services to process terabytes of data efficiently with different cloud providers.

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus and the team is in office 3 days a week.

• Execute on the software development strategy to improve our dynamic highly distributed system
• Understand and implement software development/engineering lifecycle concepts to drive features from conception to delivery
• Collaborate closely with the team, product management, architects and dev‑ops to achieve quality releases
• Work hand‑in‑hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success
• Make appropriate trade‑offs to optimize time‑to‑release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

• Experience as hands‑on Core Java Software Engineer in a distributed/cloud-based product
• Experience or exposure with native code languages, e.g. Rust, Go, C/C++ is a big plus
• Experience and/ or exposure to usage of Agentic AI for data pipelines and/ or data engineering is a big plus
• Solid experience with Spring framework, Rest API, Mongo
  
  DB, Elastic Search, Kubernetes and Docker
• Cloud Experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience and knowledge with Micro services, distributed processing systems, and performance optimization
• Experience with Agile development process and embrace Agile methodologies
• Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
• Can‑do attitude on problem‑solving, quality and ability to execute
• Nice to have, Data intensive systems
• Structured and unstructured data processing
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 9+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required.

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/com‑missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The…