Principal Software Engineer

24 hours ago

Santa Clara, California, United States Palo Alto Networks Full time
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our team at Palo Alto Networks. As a key member of our browser technologies team, you will be responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world.

About the Role

In this role, you will develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems and critical cybersecurity challenges. You will be responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support. You will write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers.

Responsibilities
  • Develop a strong understanding and be able to explain browser internals and design concepts to others
  • Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions
  • Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
  • Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
Requirements
  • 5+ years of solid experience in C++
  • Solid experience in Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Design
  • Expertise in javascript
  • Experience working on chromium or any browser engine or building features on top of the browser
  • Understanding of cache, cookies, HTTP/HTTPS and other security protocols
  • Understanding of HTML5 and CSS
  • Experience/Knowledge of V8 engine is a plus
  • Knowledge of network protocols
  • Experience in a multi-threaded and multi-process environment
  • Deep understanding of web development best practices (e.g. Performance, Memory etc.)
  • Proficiency with Source Code Tools
  • Experience handling open source projects
  • Experience handling huge code bases spanning a few GBs
Preferred Qualifications
  • Work experience in Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience working on golang applications is a plus
  • Experience in designing/building scalable microservices based architectures and REST APIs is a plus
  • Experience in building multithreaded concurrent systems
  • Video/media streaming protocols
  • RPC mechanisms
  • Experience on any databases like new4j,sql, big query etc.
  • Able to debug and analyze complex issues
  • Chromium/WebKit committer
About Us

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.

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