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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.

Your Career

The Data Platform team in the Cortex Xpanse group is expanding, and we’re looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team.

The data platform team is responsible for building the systems that turn trillions of data points into critical cybersecurity insights. As an engineer on this team, you will contribute to the full spectrum of our systems, from managing foundational data-heavy processing and data storage, to building and maintaining scalable pipelines, to developing frameworks, tools, and internal applications to make that data easily and efficiently available to other systems and teams.

Xpanse helps protect some of the world’s most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. Your expertise will help define and secure the perimeters of the world's largest and most consequential organizations in both the public and private sector.

Your Impact

As a Senior Staff Software engineer on the Data Platform team, you will

+ Design, build, and operate our foundational data-heavy services: storage (cloud data warehouse, data lake), orchestration (Jenkins), batch/stream processing (Apache Beam - Dataflow), streaming services (Pub/Sub)

+ Engage with product managers and engineers from downstream teams to architect, build, and maintain data systems to enable new product features and capabilities

+ Design and build services for end-to-end data security and data observability: managing access controls across multiple storage and access layers, tracking data quality, cataloging datasets and their lineage

+ Work with our stakeholders to push innovation across Xpanse and Palo Alto Networks

Your Experience

+ 3+ years of experience in software engineering

+ Strong Java development skills

+ Proficiency working with data systems and pipelines such as Beam

+ Clear communicator, both in code and in writing, and bring a collaborative spirit to technical planning

+ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to leverage SQL, Jenkins, and Python to analyze data for operational insights

+ Strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, and performance optimization

Preferred Skills:

+ Have expertise with any of the following: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Apache Beam, database profiling, Terraform

+ Have experience using and enhancing CI/CD systems

+ Cyber security experience

The Team

The data platform team is responsible for building the systems that turn trillions of data points into critical cybersecurity insights. As an engineer on this team, you will contribute to the full spectrum of our systems, from managing foundational data-heavy processing and data storage, to building and maintaining scalable pipelines, to developing frameworks, tools, and internal applications to make that data easily and efficiently available to other systems and teams. Xpanse helps protect some of the world's most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. Your expertise will help define and secure the perimeters of the world's largest and most consequential organizations in both the public and private sector.

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 $150k - $190k/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (http://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

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.