Principal Engineer Software

Company Description

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

Job Description

Your Impact

The infrastructure team specializes in broad solutions that have an impact on multiple teams in the organization, hence you will have interfaces with different teams within the group and outside of it, such as shared SDKs, shared APIs, shared CI processes, etc..

You will get to be a part of a team dealing with the most interesting and complex problems our organization has.

Your Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience - Must
• Experience in distributed cloud products - Must
• Experience in Python - Must
• Experienced with a variety of database technologies - advantage
• Experience with writing CI-CD pipelines - advantage

Qualifications

Qualifications

Our team is comprised of Principal Engineers with diverse backgrounds, including DBAs, software architects, team leads, and tech leads. The items that we ship vary from product roadmap critical deliverables down to low-level databases optimisation and consultation.

Additional Information

The Team

Our team is comprised of Principal Engineers with diverse backgrounds, including DBAs, software architects, team leads, and tech leads. The items that we ship vary from product roadmap critical deliverables down to low-level databases optimisation and consultation.

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

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.