Senior Principal Software Engineer

5 hours ago


Santa Clara, California, United States Palo Alto Networks Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our team at Palo Alto Networks. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery.

Key Responsibilities
  • Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation as project lead or mentor thereof
  • Lead efforts to align planned work across the product in collaboration with product management, UX design, and fellow engineering stakeholders
  • Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them
  • Mentor engineers across the department
  • Regularly provide cross-team technical collaboration and consultation
  • Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
  • Design and build business logic and API endpoints using Python and Flask
  • Build user interfaces using Angular
Requirements
  • 8+ years of industry experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business
  • Extensive experience providing technical leadership within and across teams building enterprise features on a multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale
  • Expert knowledge and informed opinions on at least one of databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization, methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency, API design and distributed backend systems
  • Extensive knowledge of Python
  • Knowledge of GCP (a plus but not required)
About Us

Palo Alto Networks is a trailblazer that dreams big, takes risks, and challenges cybersecurity's status quo. We're 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.

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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