PALO ALTO NETWORKS® is the fastest-growing security company in history.  We offer the chance to be part of an important mission: ending breaches and protecting our way of digital life. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual, then this job is for you!

As a member of the Virtualization team at Palo Alto Networks, you will develop our next-generation virtualization and SDN offerings. Responsibilities will include designing and implementing new hypervisor deployments and integrations, integrations with SDN provisioning tools, and core networking improvements in pure software environments.

REQUIREMENTS:

• You will be expected to participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and participate in development, debug and support
• Candidate should also have hands on experience with virtualization technologies, various hypervisors, system software, networking, and have experience with Linux kernel software development

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Expert C programming skills
• Hands on experience developing for VMware ESX, XenServer, KVM, and/or Hyper-V 
• Understanding of SDN mechanisms/standards
• In-depth knowledge in selected network security fields such as stateful firewall, packet processing, TCP stream inspection, network ACL, and HA preferred
• Experience with deployment on cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc)
• Experience developing device drivers and/or Linux kernel development preferred
• Experience with networking hardware and familiarity with physical networking technologies
• Strong scripting skills with bash and python
• Knowledge of orchestration systems like OpenStack is a plus
• Ability to work well with a group of senior engineers in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Minimum 4 years of related programming experience required
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent

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