Principal Software Engineer (DLP)
Palo Alto NetworksSanta Clara, United States of AmericaPosted 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
Bring your backend java cloud engineering skills to work on the latest cloud software/web applications. Help us deploy and scale the next generation of cloud security utilizing big data and Analytics. We are looking for a Sr Staff Engineer to join the team that is building our latest cloud security product - Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Our DLP service is the industry's first cloud-delivered Enterprise DLP that consistently protects sensitive data across all networks, clouds and users. This fast-growing cloud service prevents data breaches by identifying sensitive data consistently throughout the entire enterprise. It also guarantees that your data security strategy adheres to compliance and data privacy regulations.This role will also give you an unrivaled opportunity to build micro services to process terabytes of data efficiently with different cloud providers.
This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus and the team is in office 3 days a week.
Your Impact
Execute on the software development strategy to improve our dynamic highly distributed system
Understand and implement software development/engineering lifecycle concepts to drive features from conception to delivery
Collaborate closely with the team, product management, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success
Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
Qualifications
Your Experience
Experience as hands-on Core Java Software Engineer in a distributed/cloud-based product
Experience or exposure with native code languages, e.g Rust, Go, C/C is a big plus
Experience and/ or exposure to usage of Agentic AI for data pipelines and/ or data engineering is a big plus
Solid experience with Spring framework, Rest API, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes and Docker
Cloud Experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
Experience and knowledge with Micro services, distributed processing systems, and performance optimization
Experience with Agile development process and embrace Agile methodologies
Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute
Nice to have, Data intensive systems
Structured and unstructured data processing
BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 9 years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required.
Compensation Disclosure
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