Job Description

YOUR CAREER

We’re looking for an experienced UI engineer to join a feature team at Xpanse, the latest addition to Palo Alto Networks Cortex. 

Xpanse helps protect some of the world’s most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. Our feature teams are responsible for building the user-facing security products that allow customers to turn trillions of Internet data points into critical cybersecurity insights. 

In this role, you'll help lay the groundwork to effectively hire and on-board new engineers while improving our feature velocity: a goal that requires technical knowledge & execution, critical process thinking, and consensus-building skills.

YOUR IMPACT

• Evaluate our current plans, proposals, and progress for evolving Xpanse’s front-end platform; you’ll propose, gain buy-in, and enact any necessary changes to our technical roadmap
• Mentor other engineers:
  • Impart best practices through code review and pair programming
  • Recommend training or learning resources as necessary
  • Be a mentor to other team-members informally as well as through our formal Engineering Mentorship Program
• Work closely with management to evaluate and refine our interview and hiring process for front-end engineers of all levels, including efficiently onboarding new hires
• Help us complete our front-end platform modernization project, recommending adjustments to requirements and plans along the way to incrementally release improvements
• Own and drive a part of the long-term platform technical roadmap in collaboration with your counterparts across the organization
• Be a core member of a feature team, contributing to team throughput on roadmap goals; work with different teams as necessary
• Partner closely with product management and UX design to shape requirements and bootstrap new projects
• Initially spend the bulk of your time coding and contributing to the code base, eventually scaling back as you take on more technical leadership and mentorship activities across teams

Qualifications

Qualifications

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years spent as a technical lead or senior/principal engineer: we believe that there is no substitute in this position for significant time spent in a lead role
• Experience with and proven ability to technically lead large, complex projects and teams, including building functional relationships with work partners in product management and UX design
• Ability to foster technical maturity in a team through institution of standards and practices as well as direct mentorship
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively—this role and level explicitly require the ability to build a unified direction across stakeholders and partner teams; ideal candidates are able to clearly articulate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, communicate constructively with colleagues, executives, and customers, and strategically adapt their communication style, frequency, and medium for maximum effectiveness
• Ability to execute in, and through, a team on a large body of work by breaking it down into digestible pieces and parallelizing effort where feasible, then working with engineering and product management to orchestrate the effort efficiently
• Extensive practical experience with at least one major front-end framework such as React, Vue, or Angular in a production system
• Experience owning and driving front-end system architecture design, implementation, and evolution
• Experience working on and supporting systems of scale, including deep understanding of: 
  • data volume and caching concerns
  • impact of front-end requests on back-end systems
  • impact of API and database query performance on front-end experience
  • page load and time-to-interactive performance metrics as well as contributing factors
  • deployment strategies and tooling
  • design choices and best practices for all of the above

Additional Information

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.