Chief Software Engineer (AIOps Security Platform)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything begins and concludes with our mission:

To be the cybersecurity partner of choice, safeguarding our digital lifestyle.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the previous one. We are a company established on the foundation of questioning and shaking up the norm, and we're looking for inventors who are as devoted to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We emphasize flexibility and choice in all our people programs. We have disrupted the conventional thought that all employees have the same needs and desires. We provide personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the potency of teamwork and value face-to-face interactions. This is why our employees typically work from the office three days a week, leaving two days for choice and adaptability to work where you feel most effective. This setup encourages casual discussions, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may change, our objective is to create an environment where ingenuity flourishes, with office-based teams gathering three days a week to collaborate and prosper, together!

Job Description

Your Career

You will have the opportunity to establish a career solving network security challenges leveraging superior machine learning techniques on exabytes of data. You will assist in creating and delivering the most advanced AI and Machine Learning enabled solutions to detect threats, provide intelligence, and safeguard devices.

Your Impact

• Steer development of highly scalable features on our next-generation Deep Learning based AIOps security platform as part of Cloud management
• Guide a team of software/systems engineers and lead through example, coach team members, and establish credibility through quality technical execution
• Own the organizational objective of end-to-end services health and customer experience
• Promote a safe work culture that inspires individual decision-making and innovation
• Encourage regular and effective feedback among team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Proven ownership of solutions for scalable Observability, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, and Automated security solutions encompassing several dozens of micro services running on thousands of instances and containers
• 8+ years of experience in design, algorithms, and data structures - Proficiency with one or more of the following is mandatory - Java, Python, Cloud services, Data platforms
• Capable of balancing multiple, often conflicting constraints and making prompt decisions in a dynamic and rapidly-growing company.
• Have technical experience in Observability/Visibility Engineering, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Domain Controllers in order to recognize the important choices your team faces and provide meaningful feedback
• Prior experience in building and operating high-scale geographically scattered always-on systems.
• A balanced mix of Unix toolchain and development experience in a combination of native, managed and scripting programming languages.
• Experience with large-scale cluster management systems like Kubernetes and Mesos is desirable.
• Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent military experience required. MS degree preferred.

Additional Information

The Team

Leveraging the near real-time data gathered through PAN-OS device telemetry, our industry-leading next-generation insights product (AIOps for NGFW) grants large cybersecurity operators a force multiplier that offers visibility into the health of their next-generation-firewall (NGFW) devices. It enables early detection of issues at various levels of the stack via advanced time-series forecasting and anomaly detection using novel deep learning techniques. Our aim is to prevent service-impacting issues in critical security infrastructure that operates 24/7/365 without any false positives and negatives. You will be working on the top large language model in the cybersecurity industry.

Our Commitment

We’re pioneers who dream big, take risks, and challenge the status quo of cybersecurity. It's simple: we cannot achieve our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are pledged to offer reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special necessity, please reach us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal prospect employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all eligible applicants will get consideration for employment without any discrimination based on 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 details will be kept confidential in line with EEO guidelines.

The remuneration offered for this position will hinge 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 $140,100/yr to $226,600/yr. The offered compensation may also comprise of restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits can be found here.

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