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Palo Alto Networks

Principal Engineer Software Networking

Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara, California, us, 95053

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Job Description Your Career Palo Alto Networks's Advanced DNS Resolver service team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with strong programming skills and extensive background in developing DNS infrastructure products. You will be part of a world‑class software engineering team working on a global DNS resolver service that integrates world class DNS security with highly available and high‑performance DNS resolver. You will enjoy working in a small team and delivering features at a fast pace to production with excellent quality.

Your Impact

Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support

Collaborate with other cross‑functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure

Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers

Participate actively and be a factor in design and development discussions

Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations

Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact

Qualifications

7+ years of solid experience in programming, design and development

Extensive hands‑on (expert level) programming skills in Golang and Python

Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS, with good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud native services like pubsub, cloud storage and Big Query

Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, etc.

Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following – Grafana / ELK / Cloud monitoring

In depth understanding of DNS protocols, extensions, DNS resolution infrastructure and ecosystem

Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, etc

M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Additional Information The Team The ADNS Resolver team is responsible for developing a global secure DNS resolver service for Palo Alto Network customers.

Compensation Disclosure The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non‑sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between: $185,000 - $210,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment We’re problem solvers that 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 EEO 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.

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