Senior Staff Software Engineer (Java, Data Lake)

Your Career

Cortex Data Lake (CDL) enables AI-based innovations for cybersecurity with the industry’s only approach to normalizing and stitching together an enterprise’s data. Cortex Data Lake can:

• Radically simplify customer security operations by collecting, integrating, and normalizing an enterprise’s security data
• Effortlessly run advanced AI and machine learning with cloud-scale data and compute
• Constantly learns from new data sources to evolve customer defenses

CDL is built to benefit from public cloud scale and locations ready for elastic scale, eliminating the need for local compute and storage. CDL has strict privacy and security controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or identifiable information. Its infrastructure is secured with industry-standard best practices for security and confidentiality, including rigorous technical and organizational security controls.

Your Impact

• Solve complex problems in data storage to facilitate AI/ML analytics and AI-powered dashboards
• Tackle new and challenging problems by building a new generation of highly scaled data processing and analytics systems for use in AI-powered use cases
• Contribute in architecture, design and development of features 
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development processes
• Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects

Your Experience

Must have

• BS or MS in Computer Science (or related) with a total of 4 to 10 years industry experience.
• 4+  years of exceptional coding skills in Java
• 4+ years of experience as a backend Java developer in a distributed systems environment
• 4+ years of hands-on experience building large enterprise applications in Java
• Experience working on cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Good understanding of design patterns 
• Good communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Good to have

• Knowledge of databases SQL, NoSQL, Time series, GraphDB, etc
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, Samza, or DataFlow
• Experience building a data lake solution

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment. 

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.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on your degree or progress toward degree, qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer, the starting rate is expected to be  $175,000/yr for the specific role

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes