Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Xpanse)

Palo Alto Networks

Santa Clara, CA

Full Time

Senior

147k-238k

about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Xpanse) at Palo Alto Networks is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data models, APIs, and user interfaces for customer-facing security products. The role involves technical leadership, collaboration across teams, and contributing to the development of enterprise features on a multi-tenant SaaS platform. The position offers an opportunity to work on critical cybersecurity solutions that protect some of the world's most important organizations, with a focus on innovation, mentorship, and impactful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation, often as project lead
Collaborate closely with product management, UX design, and engineering stakeholders to align efforts across the product
Cultivate a big-picture perspective to identify and solve existing and upcoming problems in the product and infrastructure
Mentor engineers within your team and across the organization to ensure high output
Represent your team in cross-team technical collaboration and consultation
Continuously seek ways to make a substantial impact on your team and the broader engineering organization
Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
Design and build business logic and API endpoints using Python and Flask
Build user interfaces using Angular

Requirements

5+ years of industry experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business
Significant 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
Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure
Strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization
Strong understanding of various methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency
Experience with and informed opinions about API design and distributed backend systems
Significant experience with Python
Knowledge of GCP (a plus but not required)

Nice to Have

Knowledge of GCP

Qualifications

Educational background is not explicitly specified, but extensive professional experience is required

Benefits & Perks

Compensation between $147,000 and $237,500 per year, depending on qualifications, experience, and work location
Potential inclusion of restricted stock units and a bonus
Employee benefits detailed in the company's benefits description

Working at Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks values disruptive innovation, collaboration, integrity, inclusion, and ongoing learning. The company fosters a fast-paced environment that emphasizes teamwork, diversity, and personal development. They promote a flexible work setup with a focus on in-person interactions to build trusted relationships and solve problems effectively.

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