Principal Software Engineer , Backend, JS (Prisma Cloud)

Company Description

Our Mission
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.

Our Approach to Work
We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond! At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career
Cloud Application Security (CAS) is the cloud security platform for developers. By leveraging automation and delivering security-as-code, CAS empowers teams to find, fix, and prevent misconfigurations in deployed cloud resources, infrastructure as code, secrets, open source packages, images, and CI/CD pipelines. We are looking for a talented Principal Engineer to join our CAS ecosystem group. You will enable our customers to implement the most comprehensive cloud security platform in the market in their code environments in a scalable way. You will integrate our tools across version control and CI systems to expand the reach of our tools in complex customer environments.

Your Impact

• Design and develop scalable solutions allowing users to implement code security scanning in tens of thousands of repositories
• Work closely with product managers to solve real customer challenges and create innovative new features
• Lead the delivery of cross-team features
• Be a subject-matter expert and contribute to technical designs and architecture discussions

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of experience working as a Backend Developer
• Hands-on experience with NodeJS / Javascript / TypeScript
• Experience creating and maintaining infrastructure on AWS or another major cloud provider
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Live production systems
• Independent, an autodidact with excellent problem-solving and a passion to learn cutting-edge technologies
• Teamwork skills
• Excellent analytical and time management skills

Advantage

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) - Terraform, Cloud Formation, Pulumi, etc.
• CI/CD methodologies and relevant tools (such as Jenkins, Github actions, CircleCI)
• Serverless technologies (such as AWS Lambda)
• Python experience

Additional Information

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 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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $170,000/yr to $275,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes