Principal Software Engineer, Backend (Unit 42)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

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

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

We're seeking innovators - software engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

Unit 42 has best-in-industry security consultants to support enterprises and organizations through their cybersecurity journeys. You will work on the infrastructure: creating automations (CI/CD), monitoring and alerting, and backend supporting Unit 42’s customer-facing Web applications. . You will work closely with engineering counterparts ensuring that the overall system built scales across personas, internal and external, and geos. It is expected that this individual is able to deliver across a number of applications and use cases. As a fast moving organization, we are looking for a self-starter to jump in with the small, existing team and contribute immediately on both infrastructure and backend.

Your Impact

• You will take full end-to-end responsibility for the non-production and production environments of our SaaS product deployed on GCP
• You will build tools for the automatic remediation of known issues
• You will develop Infrastructure-as-code which will be used to orchestrate production and dev environments
• You will build CI pipelines and automation processes
• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
• You will research cutting-edge technologies and deploy them to production
• You will help build scalable and performant public and private APIs
• Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Design robust technical solutions to business problems, with a high focus on quality and execution
• As an employee in this newly-formed team, help design and build systems from scratch and implement processes to ensure modularity, efficiency and maintainability
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support
• Define, suggest and implement improvements to the development process
• Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Mentor, coach and help grow a strong technical team

Qualifications

Your Experience

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required, Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred
• 5+ years of experience with web back-end frameworks and Go and/or Java
• 3+ years as DevOps Engineer (or equal role) with a passion for technology and strong motivation and responsibility for high reliability and service level
• 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building customer-facing web applications or services back-end
• Proficiency with Terraform and HashiCorp tools
• Proficiency with CI/CD and Configuration Management (GitLab CI preferred)
• Strong Linux server / app maintenance skills and debug techniques to triage with stats and metrics from multiple sources
• Strong security minded with in-depth knowledge in various cloud security technologies such as Firewall, DDoS mitigation, Pen Testing, Authentication, and etc
• Experience in metrics/monitoring systems, i.e. Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, etc. 
• Proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Proficiency with DB such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra - An advantage
• Proficiency with automation testing tools and services, i.e. Puppeteer, Selenium, CypressFamiliar with database architecture, scalability, performance, and tuning
• Experience designing/building scalable RESTful API’s
• Develop, troubleshoot and maintain production level application code for new services and products
• Understand the value of iterating fast - learning from small, safe, frequent changes
• Experience with cloud infrastructure & services (AWS / Google Cloud / Azure )
• Experience developing Software as a Service on a public cloud & microservice architectures
• A focus on quality, with experience writing unit tests and collaborating with quality engineering to develop test plans
• Is agile, enjoys the speed of a fast-paced, highly engaged startup environment, curious, and constantly seeks to improve standards as we go along 
• Has a belief in automation, tooling, and testing as critical parts of the software lifecycle
• Verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups
• Teammate who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team.  Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clients’ security posture. 

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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

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 non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $170,000/yr to $275,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here. 

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