Sr Software Engineer - Frontend/ui (aiops)

Senior Staff Software Engineer

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.

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.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer of the AIOps engineering team, you will collaborate with the product managers, UX designers, frontend and backend engineers to design and deliver the most innovative solution that generates insights into our customers' network security infrastructure and empowers the security administrators to do their best work. You will own the front-end development of our features and drive all phases of the software product development cycle, including requirement analysis, effort estimation, design, implementation, test, code review, deployment, and bug fixing, to deliver high-quality products.

Your Impact

• Passionate in building highly graphical and scalable web application features that give customers insights into their firewalls and provide actionable solution suggestions.
• Enjoy writing clean, extensible, and easy-to-maintain code that scales and performs well for our customers.
• Regularly explore and apply new techniques, libraries, and tools to create better visualization to enrich the user experience of our product.
• Elevate less experienced team members through mentoring and reviewing their work.
• Be the role model in establishing and implementing engineering best practices, including test-driven development.
• Drive collaborative discussion and create synergy among product feature stakeholders to create an amazing product.

Your Experience

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of related programming experience required.
• Expertise in building web-based GUI development, preferably for a networking appliance with excellent ReactJS, TypeScript, and JavaScript programming skills.
• Experience in modern web frameworks and build tools such as React, Redux, Hooks, Webpack, Storybook, Vitest, Jest, react-testing-library, Git, and npm/yarn.
• Experience with CSS/SCSS, AG Grid.
• Knowledge of visualization libraries such as Highcharts, D3.js.
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs and API Communication.
• Experience with creating responsive web applications.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI tools such as Cursor AI, Gemini and NotebookLM to assist in coding, improve software quality, create and enhance workflows, and boost overall productivity.
• Ability to work well with a group of senior and junior engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with UI testing frameworks and libraries such as vitest, Jest, Playwright and Cypress.
• Experience with client-side modern build tools, and CI/CD.
• Experience with Git Version Control and Linux environments.
• Good grasp of asynchronous programming.
• Fast learner and eager to absorb new emerging technologies.
• Knack for simple and intuitive data visualizations for impactful storytelling.

Nice to haves:

• 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) is a plus.
• Experience working with Canvas & SVG is a plus.

The Team

The NetSec UI team is responsible for delivering UI solutions to our customers at Palo Alto Networks. Our team has a unique position in driving efforts to create accessible, performant, and cutting edge UI and data visualization components/modules. We foster a culture of innovation, authenticity, and collaboration. Our people make this possible. It's in our everyday interactions, how we work together and treat each other, that sets Palo Alto Networks apart from other organizations.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. The starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $126,000 - $204,500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.