Sr Staff Software Engineer (DNS Security)

Company Description

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Palo Alto Networks DNS Security team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us build out our DNS Security capability on the cloud. You will participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, and design, through implementation and testing. Work closely with security researchers, and product managers on new feature requests, QA and DevOps on testing and deployment plans, and other engineering teams on all kinds of collaboration.

We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for cloud advocates who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• Develop key security research infrastructure for researchers and security services
• Implement and maintain complex software pipelines and data infrastructure with challenging requirements for high-quality and performance
• Work closely with other team members and threat researchers to gather requirements, design architecture, and write design documents
• Work closely with QA and other development teams to deliver high-quality products
• Improve product development and release processes
• Demonstrate good software development practices and support the team in improving coding standards

Qualifications

• Solid CS fundamentals, as well as networking knowledge
• Strong knowledge of programming in GoLang or Python
• Strong knowledge of any public cloud platform such as GCP is a plus
• Strong knowledge of data processing frameworks such as Spark, Apache Beam, BigQuery, Dataflow
• Strong knowledge of SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, HBbase/Bigtable, Spanner
• Communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams toward achieving a common goal
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Solid foundation in design, data structures, and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent military experience required

The Team

Our Security Services Team is responsible for building next-generation threat prevention and antivirus solutions and shipping high-quality content to our products to prevent successful cyberattacks. The areas include malware analysis, IoT security, Web security, network security, privacy protection.

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

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 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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $119,700/yr to $193,600/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.