Principal Engineer – Software, Storage

🕒 May 1

🏄 California, Colorado, +3 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $147k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Work on technically challenging problems with some of the largest distributed systems in the world. • Directly impact how engineering teams debug production systems. • Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform. • Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers. • Design and build scalable backend services that process high-volume telemetry data. • Develop systems for ingestion, storage, indexing, and querying of time-series and event data. • Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems. • Collaborate with frontend teams to design clean, efficient APIs. • Mentor engineers and help raise 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) • Experience building and operating highly available systems in production • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) • A strong sense of ownership and can independently own projects from inception to delivery. • An effective collaborative working style.

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee benefits may include health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. • Professional development opportunities.

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