Sr Principal Software Engineer (Prisma Access)

Job Description

Your Career

Prisma Access is Palo Alto Networks' cloud-delivered security platform that offers a highly scalable cloud service to address the challenges associated with sizing firewalls and resource allocation. It provides a seamless solution for organizations with distributed networks, minimizing coverage gaps and inconsistencies. By leveraging a cloud-based security infrastructure, Prisma Access enables the operationalization of security deployment for remote networks and mobile users.

As a Senior Engineer, your role will involve building and designing distributed backend services that serve as the backbone of our platform. You will have the opportunity to think broadly about all system components and carefully consider trade-offs for each design decision. Working with the latest cloud technologies, you will be responsible for integrating them with service APIs from different cloud providers and implementing development methodologies to achieve optimal outcomes.

In addition to backend services, you will also focus on developing and automating monitoring infrastructure, optimizing data collection, analyzing system disruptions, and creating solutions for improved reliability. 

This position presents a unique opportunity to take charge of the new product architecture, and build it from scratch. You will play a vital role in shaping the future of our product and contribute to its success in the cybersecurity industry.

Your Impact

Analyze requirements, design, develop, and support highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our next-generation security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion

Develop algorithms to integrate targeted ML/AI concepts as it relates to operations in our cloud security platform in terms of networking and orchestration

Write clean, testable, readable, scalable, and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers

Actively guide testing of critical components in the product, considering complex considerations of multiple platforms, performance, supportability, maintainability, and much more

Collaborate closely with the Product management, Development, Quality Assurance, SRE, and Customer support teams on delivering the roadmap and improving customer outcomes

Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed