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-timeSanta Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $147,000 - $237,500 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.
Simplify complex technical issues to improve end-customer outcomes by working closely with customer support teams.
Foster a culture of innovation, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving within the engineering organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field with 7+ 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoJavaPythonCcloud securitydistributed software applicationsbackend developmentREST APIsserverless computingdata storage

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinginnovationintellectual curiosity