Principal Engineer Software (AIOps)

Palo Alto Networks
Office - USA - CA - HeadquartersPosted 9 March 2026

Job Description

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: Strata Logging Service (SLS) powers advanced cybersecurity innovations by providing a unique capability to normalize and correlate data across the entire enterprise. SLS can radically simplify customer security operations by collecting, integrating, and normalizing an enterprise's security data. Easily run advanced analytics at cloud scale, supported by the data and compute power you need. Constantly learns from new data sources to evolve customer defenses. SLS is built to benefit from public cloud scale and locations ready for elastic scale, eliminating the need for local compute and storage. SLS has strict privacy and security controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or identifiable information. Its infrastructure is secured with industry-standard best practices for security and confidentiality, including rigorous technical and organizational security controls. Your Role: Tackle new and challenging problems by building a new generation of highly scaled data processing and analytics systems. Contribute in architecture, design and development of features. Solve complex problems in pipeline scaling and data storage to facilitate dashboards. Suggest and implement improvements to the development processes. Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects. Qualifications Your Experience: Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications. Must have extensive hands-on programming skills in Java and distributed systems. Deep understanding of design patterns. Good communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Nice to have: Strong knowledge of databases SQL, NoSQL, Time series, GraphDB Experience with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, their services (DataFlow, BQ, Athena etc) and Kubernetes. Knowledge of Linux fundamentals and networked computing environment concepts. Additional Information: The Team: Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don't shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. 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. 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 no ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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