Principal Engineer Software

Overview

Principal Backend Engineer role leading and growing development teams for Prisma Cloud and Cortex Cloud, Palo Alto Networks’ cloud security and security operations platforms.

What you'll do

• Build and deliver backend features across the full lifecycle, from design to deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborate with peers across different geographies and disciplines to shape solutions and integrations.
• Drive code reviews, design reviews, and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
• Take a production-oriented approach by providing real-time mitigation for production issues.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including scalable server-side application development.
• MS/B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Hands-on programming experience in Go and/or Java and/or Python.
• Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g., lock-free data structures, bloom filters, minimal perfect hashing, consistent hashing).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, and/or Azure.
• Experience with microservices architecture technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, serverless).
• Hands-on experience with big-data architectures (e.g., Kafka, Splunk, Flink).

Details

• Work from the office full time with flexibility when needed.
• Location: Bangalore (Bagmane Tech Park), India.