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Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish — but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall team as Senior Principal / Principal Engineer. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall.

As a member of a data plane networking software group, you will be responsible for innovating, designing and developing specifically in the areas of routing protocols, networking technologies and data plane architecture. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Your Impact:

Responsible for development of NextGen Network Security Components and Protocols for State-of-the-art firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments.

Development of features and architecture for NextGen Security Hardware and Virtual platforms in areas of Network Security/Threats, support routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, OSPFv3, PIM, IGMP, IS-IS, BFD) and stateful TCP/L4/L7 inspection.

Develop network security TCP/IP stack

Develop network security high availability service infrastructure;

Develop scalable software solutions for a distributed session architecture spanning across a cluster of firewalls.

Work with multi-functional team members on feature requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc

Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments

Your Experience:

Strong in-depth C Programming experience

Multi-core and Multi-threading programming experience is a MUST

Strong experience in large scale software development on Unix/Linux.

Strong technical knowledge in computer architecture and systems engineering

Experience in routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, etc) is desired.

Strong experience in packet processing, parsing, networking (L1-L7) protocols/architecture

Experience in data plane forwarding and any network processor programming

Can-do attitude and ability to take initiative and drive open issues to completion

Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups.

BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

Experience in Go, Python is good to have

Additional Information

Additional information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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 [email protected].

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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