Senior Staff Software Engineer (API Service)

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

The Cloud Management Platform is a public cloud delivered management platform to manage all Palo Alto Networks Next generation network security solutions. It's an easy-to-use, scalable and secure platform to operationalize complex deployments using the Palo Alto Networks network security portfolio. You will work in a team of highly motivated engineers building a highly scalable and secure multi-tenant public cloud solution to manage network and security configuration and operational data of the customer as well as manage devices in physical, virtual or container form factors. We are looking for passionate engineers that can code and build great products as well as leaders that can own and deliver. Collaboration and teamwork are at the foundation of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with others towards achieving a common goal.

Your Impact

• Design and develop highly scalable, high-volume, low-latency microservices in cloud based multi-tenant delivering high-availability and performance
• Actively participate in developing next-generation full stack solutions while investigating alternative technologies
• Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors
• Responsible for abiding to production-readiness checklist
• Approaches code design and implementation with a security lens and actively looks for vulnerabilities both in the code and when providing code reviews
• Take ownership and collaborate with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment
• Work with Devops and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in building enterprise applications required
• Full stack engineer who can learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies as-needed
• Excellent programming skills in any server side programming language
• Strong proficiency in Golang programming language
• Deep understanding of JavaScript(ES6) and Node.js internals including building public node (npm) modules
• Strong fundamentals in object oriented design and development using common design patterns is a must. Experience with or familiarity of Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration is a plus
• Deep understanding of safe coding practices with knowledge of common approaches to avoiding code vulnerabilities (security issues, type-safe code, sql injections, XSS etc.) is a must
• Experience in designing/building scalable REST APIs
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL technologies such as Mysql, Redis

Additional Information

Compensation Disclosure

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 $126000/YR - $190,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here .

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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 [email protected] .

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes