Senior Principal Software Engineer, NetSec-PanOS Dev

Palo Alto Networks

. Provide technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of solutions, ensuring alignment with cross-functional product management and quality assurance teams.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $277,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BigQueryCloudGoJavaKafkaPythonRedisSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of solutions, ensuring alignment with cross-functional product management and quality assurance teams.
Design, implement, and troubleshoot robust next-generation cloud security solutions to address complex network security challenges.
Drive the development of scalable cloud security architecture through hands-on coding and strategic architectural planning.
Manage the full product development lifecycle, from definition and design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
Collaborate proactively with Product Management, SRE, and Quality Engineering to deliver high-quality security-as-a-service offerings to market.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field with 15+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
Minimum of 5 years of hands-on programming experience in Go or Java, with additional proficiency in Python or C highly valued.
Proven experience designing and developing high-performance, high-scale distributed software applications in a cloud environment.
Strong technical proficiency with cloud technologies such as message queue(Kafka/PubSub/Redis), Data Storage(SQL/Bigtable/Redis/Mongo/BigQuery).
Demonstrated expertise in backend development, including REST APIs, databases, and serverless computing for distributed cloud applications.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoJavaPythonCcloud securitydistributed software applicationsbackend developmentREST APIsserverless computingcloud architecture

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationproactive communicationstrategic planning