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# Principal Software Engineer - Back End (Wildfire)

- **Company:** Palo Alto Networks
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $147,000.0 - $237,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Data Infrastructure, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, NoSQL, Queue Management Systems, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Cloud Platform System, Cyber Threat Analysis, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Malware Detection, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** July 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gjfk08

## About the Role

Your Experience

 + Hands-on, principal level software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems

 + Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang

 + Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes

 + Demonstrated experience working with Public Cloud Services such as AWS or GCP and designing cloud-native solutions

 + Knowledge of the DevOps workflow

 + Experience with data infrastructure platforms

 + Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery

 + Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub

 + Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal.

 + Experience in leading and doing big projects end to end

 + Excellent communication and collaboration skills required.

 + BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

## Description

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test.

Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.

The Team

We are the Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team. We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity.

Your Impact

 + Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems

 + Design and implement real-time security services to our customers

 + Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects

 + Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases

 + Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements


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