Sr Principal Software Engineer

Your Career

We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall team as a Sr Principal 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
• Lead L2-L4 network security feature development
• Lead next generation security product development
• Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner
• Develop security modules with disruptive technologies based on deep packet inspection (DPI) and Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms
• 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

• Expert in common network protocols such as TCP/IP
• Expert in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems
• In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations
• In-depth understanding of linux system
• Expert C, Python, Shell script programming skills
• Tech lead experience in networking domains
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups