Senior Engineer Software (Cortex Xpanse)

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Zero Day team, you will

• Design, build, and optimize Kubernetes-hosted web applications for maximum speed and scale, using a number of backend storage technologies, including MySQL and  BigQuery 

• Architect and implement scalable ETL and ELT processes to handle data ranging from gigabytes to petabytes in size

• Design and develop distributed streaming pipelines using Java multithreading and Apache Beam frameworks

• Design and optimize data storage and indexing solutions for both real-time streaming and batch processing applications

• Collaborate closely with product management teams to align efforts across the product and other engineers on your team to create designs to address these challenge areas and integrate new capabilities in the product

• Ensure your team delivers high output and mentor other engineers

• Continuously seek ways to make a substantial impact on your team and the broader engineering organization

• Help drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation

• Anticipate challenges of architecting at scale, align architecture vision with strategic initiatives

• Industry experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business

• Experience providing technical leadership of teams building enterprise features on a multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale (examples - role-based access, SAML integrations, feature flag frameworks)

• Excitement to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production - results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure

• Solid understanding of various methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency

• Strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization

• Experience with and opinions about API design and distributed backend systems

• Familiarity with Python and Java

• Knowledge of GCP is a plus but not required

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 [email protected].

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.