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Sr Staff Software Engineer - Feature Team (Expanse)

Palo Alto Networks

Sr Staff Software Engineer - Feature Team (Expanse)

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    YOUR CAREER

    As a Senior Engineer on one of our feature teams, you will be an integral part of the group that enables Expanse’s customers to engage with their data through our APIs and UI. You will build backend systems, select technology stacks, collaborate with other engineers, and own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing API and UI features. You will draw upon your experience to rapidly investigate and prototype new functionality built upon cutting-edge technology, then switch to implementation mode to deliver products built upon your research. You will guide and mentor your team in enterprise software development, architecture development, and technology evaluation. You will represent your team in architecture roadmap planning sessions, working regularly with other engineers, architects, and product managers.

    Your expertise will help define and secure the perimeters of the world's most important organizations.

    YOUR IMPACT

    • Design, build, and optimize Kubernetes-hosted web applications for maximum speed and scale, using a number of backend storage technologies, including Postgres, Elasticsearch, and S3
    • Ensure your team delivers high output and mentor other engineers.
    • Continuously seek ways to make a substantial impact on your team and the broader engineering organization.
    • Help drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation.
    • Anticipate challenges of architecting at scale, align architecture vision with strategic initiatives.
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YOUR EXPERIENCE

    • Have 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business
    • Have experience in providing technical leadership of teams building enterprise features on a multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale (examples: role-based access, SAML integrations, feature flag frameworks)
    • Are excited to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production; results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Have the ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure
    • Are comfortable supporting your work in production
    • Have a thorough understanding of design patterns
    • Have strong familiarity with Java. Knowledge of Python is a bonus.
    • Have a solid understanding of various methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency
    • Have strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization
    • Are xperienced and opinionated about API design and distributed backend systems
    • Have knowledge of AWS or GCP—this is not required but highly desired
    • Have experience with Docker and Kubernetes

    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.