Principal Engineer, Software Developer Experience, Backend

🕒 May 1

🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $147k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Palo Alto Networks

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10,000+ employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $1M Seed Round - Morta Security on 2013-02

Cybersecurity • Enterprise

Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity company that provides AI-driven platforms, products, and services to protect networks, cloud workloads, endpoints, and applications. Its portfolio includes next-generation firewalls, SASE and Prisma Cloud (CNAPP) offerings, the Cortex security operations suite (XDR, XSOAR, XSIAM), and Unit 42 threat intelligence and incident response services. Palo Alto Networks helps enterprises secure AI deployments, automate SOC workflows, and prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

📋 Description

• Directly impact how customers leverage observability for their infrastructure and services architecture • Leverage AI infrastructure like LLMs, ML to build innovative capabilities for our customers • Design experiences and systems for contextualizing large amounts of telemetry data • Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform • Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers • Improve our own system observability (we use our own product heavily) • Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems • Mentor engineers and help maintain our engineering standards

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Rust) • Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude) as part of day-to-day software development • Experience building and operating highly available systems in production • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) for scale • Experience working effectively with cross functional partners • Experience owning and executing projects from inception to delivery • Experience working with a high degree of autonomy with good judgement on when to push forward and when to ask for help • An effective collaborative working style and willingness to build and maintain a positive and supportive environment • An ability to operate effectively in a remote first environment

🏖️ Benefits

• A description of our employee benefits may be found here .