**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 take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included. As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few! **Your Career** We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be a part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation. You will design and build high-throughput infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the widest variety of industry technologies.We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join a dynamic group that operates with the independence and innovative spirit of a startup, yet benefits from the robust support of a thriving corporation. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing and building high-throughput infrastructure capable of supporting billions of events per second. Your work will involve storing, processing, and ensuring the accessibility and visibility of these events to users, all while engaging with a diverse range of industry technologies. **Your Impact** + You will be responsible for the complete software development lifecycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support + You will drive ideas and initiatives, making innovation a reality, and lead your colleagues from ideation through implementation **Your Experience** + BS in Computer Science, equivalent knowledge or equivalent military experience + 8+ years of software engineering experience – Must + Experience in distributed cloud products + Experience in designing, building and maintaining a scalable server side application + Experienced with a variety of database and caching technologies (Mysql / Cassandra / Google BigQuery / Amazon Redshift / ElasticSearch/ Redis…) + Experience in Go / Python – an advantage + Experience with GCP / AWS / Azure / Oracle Cloud – advantage + Experience with Kubernetes / Docker – advantage + Knowledge of the cyber field – advantage **The Team** Our team is responsible for managing the primary entrance gates of customer data to the platform, integrating keen customer understanding with the latest engineering solutions to facilitate high-throughput, minimal-latency, and high-scale data ingestion. We are required to be dynamic and fast, consistently adapting and catching up with the latest technologies employed by our customers to ensure they keep getting the best security coverage for their operational environments. Our team possesses expert knowledge in high-throughput data retrieval and maintains close collaboration with product teams, customers, and other engineering departments. It functions as a pivotal engineering hub - being the crucial interface between the customer environments and the advanced analytical solutions provided by the Cortex platform. \#LI-SS2 **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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com . 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.