Job Description

YOUR CAREER

We’re looking for an experienced 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 will be an integral part of the group that enables our 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

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business

• Experience 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)

• Excitement to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production; results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure

• Comfort supporting your work in production

• Understanding of design patterns

• Familiarity with Java. Knowledge of Python is a bonus.

• Solid understanding of various methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency

• Strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization

• Experience with and opinions about API design and distributed backend systems

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Knowledge of AWS or GCP is not required but a strong plus

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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.