What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineer Software (Networking) position at PaloAlto Networks?
Job Details
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.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.
Who We Are
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks's Advanced DNS Resolver service team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with strong programming skills and extensive background in developing DNS infrastructure products. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team working on a global DNS resolver service that integrates world class DNS security with highly available and high performance DNS resolver. You will enjoy working in a small team and delivering features at a fast pace to production with excellent quality.
Your Impact
Qualifications
Your Experience
Additional Information
The Team
The ADNS Resolver team is responsible for developing a global secure DNS resolver service for Palo Alto Network customers.
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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between: $185,000 - $210,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here
Our Commitment
We're problem solvers that 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
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.
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.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.
Who We Are
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks's Advanced DNS Resolver service team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with strong programming skills and extensive background in developing DNS infrastructure products. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team working on a global DNS resolver service that integrates world class DNS security with highly available and high performance DNS resolver. You will enjoy working in a small team and delivering features at a fast pace to production with excellent quality.
Your Impact
- Responsible for complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
- Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure
- Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
- Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions
- Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations
- Ability to troubleshoot issues in production environment and continuously improve the code and process to reduce the impact
Qualifications
Your Experience
- 7 years of solid experience in programming, design and development
- Extensive hands-on (expert level) programming skills in Golang and Python
- Extensive experience working on public cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform and AWS, with good understanding of cloud networking, IAM roles and policies, and experience using cloud native services like pubsub, cloud storage and Big Query
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Gitlab, etc.
- Experience in delivering application performance monitoring visualizations with any of the following - Grafana / ELK / Cloud monitoring.
- In depth understanding of DNS protocols, extensions, DNS resolution infrastructure and ecosystem.
- Knowledge of Networking and Routing protocols like BGP, TCP/IP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, etc
- M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Additional Information
The Team
The ADNS Resolver team is responsible for developing a global secure DNS resolver service for Palo Alto Network customers.
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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between: $185,000 - $210,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here
Our Commitment
We're problem solvers that 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
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.
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Salary : $185,000 - $210,000