Palo Alto Networks Hiring for Principal Engineer Software at Gurugram, India Full Time

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

The Prisma SaaS team at Palo Alto Networks is looking for a seasoned and accomplished technology leader to design, develop and deliver the next generation technology product within our Prisma SAAS teams.. This fast-growing cloud service provides visibility and real time security for SaaS applications such as Box, Dropbox, GitHub, Google Apps, Slack, Salesforce and many more.

This team is a critical group within the Prisma SaaS team that has just started scratching the surface of the huge SaaS security market. We have the unique opportunity to have a huge impact on the overall SaaS security initiatives within Palo Alto Networks, and scale the product to new heights while working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

We are looking for someone who is an experienced and seasoned leader, has experience leading and owning complex technical architecture both from the product engineering perspective, as well as the infrastructure and DevOps perspective. We want passionate leaders who love to code, get hands-on, and build great products. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus, and who are driven to solve problems at every level. If you have the passion to solve challenging engineering problems, while working with huge scale in a dynamic fast paced environment, if you are interested in pushing your boundaries as an engineer leader, and working at the cusp of Data Security, and state of the art technology within a quality focussed dynamic engineering culture, talk to us!

Your Impact

• Design, Develop and Implement highly scalable software applications within Prisma SaaS

• Contribute towards architecture quality and vision

• Customer First Mindset is required and a very good team player. Be a cultural champion and role model for others showcasing the org values

• Work with different development and quality assurance groups to achieve the best quality

• Work with DevOps and technical support teams to troubleshoot and fix customer reported issues

• Mentor and Coach team members

• Push engineering boundaries, coming up with high quality, simple solutions to complex engineering and product problems

• Maintain and cultivate high quality in terms of engineering practices, code quality, and work/foster a culture of engineering excellence, and dynamic execution

• Strong ownership mindset while owing the execution of complex engineering challenges including their architecture, their timelines, while collaborating with stakeholders including UI/UX designers, product owners

Your Experience

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related fields or equivalent military experience required

• 9+ years of experience in Software Development

• Strong leadership skills with a can-do attitude

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in Java

• Experiencing building highly available, scalable, and performant systems

• Strong grasp on microservices and designing complex products via distributed systems

• Strong grasp on data structures and algorithms

• System design and object orientation skills with ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction

• Experience with DevOps (Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices)

• Experience in AWS/GCP/Azure cloud

• Experience with queuing systems like Kafka, or RabbitMQ

• Experience in mentoring and guiding junior team members in a high performing teams

• Prior experience in the Cyber Security domain is preferred

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career.

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

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.

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