Software Engineer

About This Role

Designing and building innovative, scalable software products is the core of this engineering job, ensuring customers can use AI securely. The role involves owning new features from start to finish and collaborating with various teams to shape the future of the company's AI Security Offerings.

Responsibilities

• Design and build innovative, scalable software products to ensure customers can use AI securely
• Own new features/functionality from start to finish
• Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Palo Alto Networks AI Security Offerings
• Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch reliability, availability, and performance
• Develop expertise in new technologies and keep up with the rapidly evolving AI security landscape
• Mentor junior engineers and champion high standards of development and innovation

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, building and designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
• Hands-on programming skills in Java, Go, Python, or equivalent languages
• Experience with a major cloud provider like GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Spanner, BigTable, BigQuery, MongoDB etc
• Experience with Graph databases such as Neo4j is highly desired
• Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or PubSub
• Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, Serverless, etc)
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Experience partnering with Product Managers and front end engineers
• Experience in leading and doing big projects end to end
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana
• Experience using AI tools to aid design and development
• Experience working in an an agile and dynamic environment
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude
• Familiarity with Cyber Technologies, Information Security, and Software Security is a plus

Benefits

• Healthcare: Options to choose what best supports your lifestyle and personal health goals. Various nationwide plans — including Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, Delta Dental, VSP, and more — are available to you and your family. Providers offer the flexibility and coverage you need
• Wellness: Large on-site gym and daily, instructor-led exercise classes at HQ in Santa Clara. Juice bar, Gym & Juice, features fresh juice blends. Ongoing wellness speaker series highlights the latest trends in health and wellness
• Development: Professional development with 25+ courses to help employees boost their careers and develop leadership capability
• Financial: Most roles are eligible for equity grants, with new hires receiving a quarterly vesting schedule right away. Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 24-month lookback. Life insurance and health savings accounts. Traditional and Roth 401(k) options, along with a company match of 50% to a max annual amount of $1,000
• Time Off: Paid corporate holidays, Flexible Time Off programs. 12 weeks of full pay for medical leave and 6 weeks of full pay for parental leave. 26 weeks of full pay for military leave
• Perks: Corporate discount program on merchandise, travel and entertainment. On-site perks at headquarters, including cafeterias, fuel service, dry cleaning service, EV charging stations, and a company store. Complimentary drinks, fresh fruit, and snacks in break rooms across campus

About the Company

Palo Alto Networks actively supports employee fitness and offers professional development through its Talent Development team.