Principal Engineer Software, Security...

As a hands-on Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role within the infrastructure engineering team. Your responsibilities include defining and building core security engineering efforts to create a foundational security infrastructure used across the entire company. Success in this role requires leveraging a deep understanding of security infrastructure, strong system software development skills, and empathy for other developers. Your goal is to ensure security serves as a shared guardrail, never a bottleneck, regardless of the project., + Design, implement, and work with other engineering teams to operate security tools and programs across the organization, including access control & workflows, vulnerability management, and detection/response systems.

• 10+ years in security or infra-focused engineering roles with meaningful security ownership.

• The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery.

• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Empathy for the problems faced by developers, and a passion for building tools and systems that address those problems.

• Built vulnerability management systems that actually drive risk down.

• Led security incident response efforts and postmortem improvements.

• Strong interest in how things work. Curiosity and persistence is key to building the understanding needed to apply.

• A flexible, collaborative working style. We're a small team working in a rapidly evolving space, and we're looking for people who will help build a positive, supportive environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building foundational security programs at growth-stage companies.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks, but a healthy skepticism of security theater.

• An outstanding ability to communicate risk with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Significant experience building infrastructure software in Go, C++, Rust, or Python.

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (https://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.