Palo Alto Networks · 1 day ago
Sr Staff Engineer Software (Prisma Access)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$126K/yr - $204K/yr
8+ years expPalo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting the digital way of life. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design and build distributed backend services for their Prisma Access platform, focusing on scalable architectures and collaboration with various teams.
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Responsibilities
Design scalable system architectures, participate in team-wide initiatives, and deliver immediate resolutions to production challenges to guarantee a seamless user experience
Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
Actively guide testing of critical components in the product, taking into account complex considerations of multiple platforms, performance, supportability, maintainability and much more
Collaborate closely with the Product management, Development, Quality Assurance, SRE and Customer support teams
Contribute to a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
Write design documents, software development guidelines, and best practices
Provide mentorship and coaching to team members to foster their professional growth
Qualification
Required
8+ years' experience in building complex, high scale SaaS solutions - Preferably experienced in Golang
Passion for software engineering and coding, energetic and eager to create and outperform
Experience in developing cloud distributed applications and cloud infrastructures
Strong computer science fundamentals and understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Proven record designing and implementing scalable REST APIs, services and data pipelines
Hands-on experience using SQL/NoSQL based databases
Understanding of microservices-based deployments with the ability to introduce monitoring/tracing of application logs (e.g. Splunk) from inception
Experience handling Devops, SRE, availability and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product
Some experience with running complex workloads on cloud-based architectures on one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and their technologies (Lambda functions, SNS/SQS etc.)
B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent military experience required
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M
Leadership Team
Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
Recent News
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