Principal Software Engineer (fullstack - React, Java)

Join Our Team At Palo Alto Networks

Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We are committed to 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.

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 contribute 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. We show up for each other with integrity and create 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. Our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported.

We are looking for an Engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Our DLP service is the industry's first cloud-delivered Enterprise DLP that consistently protects sensitive data across all networks, clouds and users. This fast-growing cloud service prevents data breaches by identifying sensitive data consistently throughout the entire enterprise. It also guarantees that your data security strategy adheres to compliance and data privacy regulations.

This role will also give you an opportunity to build micro services to process terabytes of data efficiently with different cloud providers.

Your Impact

• Passionate in building highly quality and scalable Frontend components and REST APIs
• Execute on the software development strategy to improve our dynamic highly distributed system
• Understand and implement software development/engineering lifecycle concepts to drive features from conception to delivery
• Collaborate closely with the team, product management, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
• Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success
• Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

Your Experience

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
• Minimum 7 years of related programming experience required
• Expertise in building web-based GUI development with excellent ReactJS, TypeScript, and JavaScript programming skills
• Experience with modern web frameworks and build tools such as React, Redux, Hooks, Webpack, Storybook, and npm/yarn
• Experience with Visualization Libraries
• Experience in building highly scalable REST apis using Java Spring framework is desirable
• Ability to work well with a group of senior and junior engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Experience with client-side modern build tools and CI/CD
• Experience with Git Version Control
• Good grasp of asynchronous programming
• Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality, and ability to execute
• Highly experienced in web application debugging and root-cause analysis

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with UI test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, react-testing-library, Mocha
• Able to troubleshoot system-level integration and performance issues
• GitHub portfolio or equivalent
• Familiarity with micro frontend architecture patterns and best practices
• Experience with containerizing applications with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)/AWS is a plus

You'll be working in a top tier cybersecurity company and collaborating with some of the brightest minds in technology. Our team doesn't shy away from tackling big problems. You will help build and support the tools and infrastructure enabling our developers to release the products that our customers depend on to defend against cyberattacks.

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 to be between $$149,000 - $220,500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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.