Sr. Principal Engineer (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

The Role:

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 be the owner of the Unit 42 customer-facing Web application. You will work closely with engineering counterparts ensuring that the overall system built scales across personas, internal and external, and geos. You will work closely with the product and design teams to ensure that we deliver the best possible experiences for our users. 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 with strong UX intuition and technical architecture capabilities to drive Web frontend development for the team.

Your Impact

• Own the Web frontend for Unit 42’s flagship customer and internal platform, Arcade - This includes both building capabilities to support the business (retainer modeling, enterprise transactions, support / communications, planning) and to provide security insights and protections for customers with integrations into our existing products
• Build best-in-class product experiences working closely with Product Management and Design
• Participate in vendor evaluation and ensure that selected solutions can be customized to provide best-in-class user experiences
• Lead all Web UI implementation for first-party and third-party solutions
• Design robust technical solutions to business problems, with a high focus on quality and execution
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development process
• Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience in a senior web front-end engineering role
• Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• 5+ years experience with a modern JavaScript framework (React, Vue, etc.)
• Experience architecting front-end systems that interact with cloud services and APIs
• Articulate and concise written and verbal communication
• Teammate who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment
• Knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL database systems such as Oracle, Cassandra, or MongoDB is a plus
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Aptitude to independently learn new technologies, seek problems with imaginative solutions, work well in collaborative teams, and produce high quality software under tight deadline constraints
• Has a belief in automation, tooling, and testing as critical parts of the software lifecycle
• Loves the idea of ownership and delivering amazing products
• Bachelors in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent military experience required

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Web performance optimization
• Strong development skills in a modern object-oriented language like Java or C#, and a familiarity

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 brings together our world-renowned threat researchers with an elite team of security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response ready organization. 

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/com-missioned 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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.