Principal software engineer security - cloud

Palo Alto Networks Inc.
Santa Clara, CA

Santa Clara, California, United States Product Engineering Ref ID: JR-014610

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Your Career

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 leaders 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.

Your Impact

  • Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed services for IoT security products to exchange IoT intelligences and extend system functionality through integrations with third party systems like ServiceNow, SIEMs and Cisco/ISE etc.

  • Design and implement the highly scalable and high performance services to support IoT devices’ operational technology support

  • Design and implement IoT Security Web Service APIs using NodeJS and SQL/Nosql database technology to provide key metrics and analytics for IoT devices

  • Design and implement algorithms for Device Security event connector and inspector management services to transfer customer network data into the cloud for storage and analytics at scale

  • Design and implement data pipeline to support IoT security features like device Identification, alert publishing, and device status tracking

Qualifications

  • Must have BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 5~10 years software development experience

  • Must have 5+ years of working experience with Amazon AWS, Google GCP or MS Azure

  • Must have 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving system

  • Must have 5~10 years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python

  • Must have experience with Linux and Shell scripting

  • Must have good communication skills

  • Must have great problem-solving skills

  • Prefer knowledge of MongoDB, Kafka/firehose, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions.

  • Prefer knowledge of Network domain

  • Prefer experiences in building real-time analytics systems or machine learning systems

  • Good to have experience in Single Sign On (SSO) integration, Graph Data Lakehouse

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

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 [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

Posted 2026-03-03

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