Sr. Staff Software Engineer

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 Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team - We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity. Your Career As a Sr Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test. Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions. You’re hands-on and comfortable writing code. You keep up with best practices and have a breadth of experience with different languages and frameworks. You’re passionate about code quality and automation. You're comfortable driving the implementation and adoption of new frameworks, tools and technologies. You’re comfortable crafting robust distributed systems that achieve both short and long-term business goals. You have the ability to articulate a clear technical vision. Key Responsibilities Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems Design and implement real-time security services to our customers Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native solutions Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning Mentoring junior developers Qualifications Required Qualifications ​​BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 5 years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required Hands-on, software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions Experience in leading and doing projects e ... (truncated, view full listing at source)