Principal Software Engineer

Your Career

We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall team as a Software Engineer. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall. As a member of a data plane networking software group, you will be responsible for designing and developing the next-generation firewall. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks.

Your Impact

• Responsible for development of Next Gen Network Security Components and Protocols for State-of-the-art firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments
• Develop network security TCP/IP stack
• Develop network security features for QoS
• Develop network security high availability service infrastructure
• Develop network security features for tunneling protocols such as GRE and VxLAN
• Develop security modules with disruptive technologies based on deep packet inspection (DPI) and Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms
• Develop scalable high availability, cluster solution for stateful Failover
• Work with multi-functional team members on user requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc.
• Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments

Requirements

Your Experience

• In-depth understanding of common network protocols such as TCP/IP
• In-depth understanding of computer architecture, cybersecurity
• In-depth understanding of IPsec VPN, GRE and VXlan tunneling
• In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations
• Expert C, Python programming skills and coding style
• Good understanding of linux system
• Good experience with distributed system, networking devices
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups