Principal / Sr Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Native NMS)

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 Help build what is next. Our Cloud Management Platform is a public cloud delivered management platform to manage all Palo Alto Networks Next generation network security solutions. It’s an easy-to-use, scalable and secure platform to operationalize complex deployments using the Palo Alto Networks network security portfolio. Palo Alto Networks Software Engineers are: Technical experts that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices. Experts who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains. Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo Alto Networks culture Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers Hands-on engineers that can code and build great products. Key Responsibilities Conceptualize, Collaborate and Develop highly scalable cloud native Network Management System for managing devices and services at scale in hybrid deployments. Hands-on participation in developing next generation configuration management architecture. Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment. Deliberate and build frameworks to improve quality of micro services Work with Devops and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects. Recruit and Mentor new team members. Qualifications Required Qualifications 8 or more years of experience in building large enterprise applications required. Proven ability to lead and collaborate with many cross-functional teams with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery Experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, peer review, and operations Excellent programming skills in GoLang is a must. Strong fundamentals in object oriented design and development is a must. Experience with or familiarity of Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration is required. Experience developing microservice based solutions on public cloud infrastructure is highly desirable. Experience building data management solutions using transactional data stores is required. Knowledge of and experience building enterprise software with graph databases is highly desirable. Experience building network and security configuration management systems is highly desirable. Experience building appliance based network management solutions is highly desirable. Education: MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent. Preferred Qualifications Excellent programming skills in C is ... (truncated, view full listing at source)