Principal IT Software Engineer

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.

Who 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 FLEXBenefits 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.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is the fastest-growing security company in history and a four-time Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for our innovation and ability to execute. Named best place to work by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, we offer the chance to be part of an important mission: ending breaches and protecting our way of digital life. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual, then this job may be for you!

Join a dynamic and fast-paced team of seasoned fellow engineers designing and developing multi-tiered applications in a rapidly growing company for both external customers as well as to support our internal operations. You will leverage your extensive experience in data systems to act as the trailblazer to help us build and innovate enterprise grade full stack systems.

Your Impact

• Provide technical and thought leadership in building of next generation entitlement and activation platform
• Lead the design, development, test, and documentation of scalable, high-quality cloud-based business applications
• Identify appropriate microservice implementation and build cloud hosted services using Java, Python and JavaScript (Node.js)
• Design and build highly performant, highly available, and highly observable enterprise systems
• Recommend alternate approaches, analyze impacts, and provide sizing estimates Collaborate with other cross platform team members to build effective integrations
• Institute and promote innovative thinking by incorporating latest industry trend, including but not limited to agentic AI and machine learning
• Promote, establish, and expand development best practices such as code reviews and design sessions
• Partner with business requirement stakeholders to design, develop and refine the experience of an application and application interfaces
• Prepare project related documentation, GAP analysis, functional specifications, design specifications, and complete development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms during different stages of a project

Your Experience 

• 12+ years overall IT system architecture, design, development, deployment experience with Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related degree
• Technical leadership experience in Java, Python and JavaScript development within team (Agile / Scrum) environments and large implementations
• Extensive experience development, integration, and migration of data intensive systems
• Experience in driving major initiatives with status updates to senior leadership team
• Proven ability to use common design patterns, deployments patterns, architecture patterns, SOA patterns including REST, data services and enterprise APIs
• Experience with developing applications leveraging GCP
• Proven experience designing, developing, or integrating AI/Machine Learning solutions into enterprise applications
• Must have experience building and maintaining highly observable systems
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn is a strong plus.
• Ability to work in collaborative, multi-functional, and multi-cultural teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous deliverables in a fast-paced environment
• Strong understanding of integrated flows for customer support processes
• Must be Local to SF bay area to be onsite at HQ

The Team

Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You’ll join the brightest minds in technology, creating, building, and supporting tools and enabling our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks.

We’re connected by one mission but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team of people who feel excited by the prospect of a challenge and feel a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.

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. 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 simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes