Key Responsibilities
Serve as an acknowledged technical leader, providing consultation and proactively collaborating across engineering teams to ensure alignment.
Drive the full lifecycle of projects from requirements gathering to final design and implementation, acting as a project lead or mentor.
Lead the alignment of planned work across the product by partnering with product management, UX design, and engineering stakeholders.
Utilize a big-picture perspective to identify, analyze, and provide practical solutions for complex existing and impending technical problems.
Design, build, and optimize highly scalable data models and queries using technologies such as MySQL, Spanner and BigQuery, focusing on the details to ensure performance.
Develop robust business logic and API endpoints using Python and Fast API, and build high-performance backend services using Go.
Proactively identify, articulate, and mitigate risks in projects to ensure smooth execution and high-quality output.
Mentor and empower other engineers across the department, fostering a culture of technical excellence and applied learning.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
14+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on distributed, cloud-native application development.
Expert-level programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, with proven experience building large-scale distributed systems.
Extensive experience with cloud development, including REST APIs, databases, serverless computing, and microservices architectures.
Demonstrated experience as a hands-on technical lead or architect on complex software projects.
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years of hands-on experience with specific cloud technologies such as BigQuery, Google Pub/Sub, or similar.
Deep understanding of public cloud design considerations, including security, global network infrastructure, and load bala
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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
$183,600.00 - $297,000.00/yr
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
