Palo Alto Principal Engineer Software 

India, Maharashtra, Pune 

206946435

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

Prisma Access™ (formally GlobalProtect Cloud Service) provides protection straight from the cloud to make access to the cloud secure. It combines the connectivity and security you need and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next-generation security protection to all cloud services, customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.

Your Impact

• ​​Design and implement new features and integrations for virtualization features across diverse cloud environments and deployments
• Engage in all phases of the product development cycle from concept definition, design, through implementation, and testing
• Develop comprehensive functional specifications, evaluate task requirements and timelines, and contribute to design, development, debugging, and support processes
• Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies, various hypervisors, system software, and networking
• Customer First Mindset is required and a very good team player. Be a cultural champion and role model for others showcasing the org values
• Work with different development and quality assurance groups to achieve the best quality
• Work with DevOps and technical support teams to troubleshoot and fix customer reported issues
• Work with other software development team to apply PanOS features on Prisma Access

Your Experience

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field required or equivalent military experience required
• 11-15 years of experience in developing data-plane applications
• Proficiency in C/C++ programming languages, with a strong emphasis on Linux.
• Strong Data structures/Algorithms & debugging
• Strong knowledge in network security fields like stateful firewall, packet processing, and network ACL.
• Experience with building applications in the cloud
• Experience developing modules based on the network stack, OSI and TCP/IP models L4 - L7.
• Nice to have hands-on programming experience in Python and Go
• In-depth understanding of Operating System principles and OS like Linux/Unix
• In-depth understanding of networking concepts and TCP/IP stack, TLS
• Exposure to building Microservices
• Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, OpenStack, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Experience with deployment on cloud environments (OCI/AWS/GCP)
• Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communication skills
• Solid foundation in design, data structures, and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills
• Experience in mentoring and guiding junior team members in high performing teams.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.