Sr. Software Engineer (Client/Server Infrastructure)

PALO ALTO NETWORKS® is the fastest-growing security company in history. We offer the chance to be part of an important mission: ending breaches and protecting our way of digital life. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual, then this job is for you! You will be responsible for building a scalable architecture, design and development of the central management solutions to manage Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall. RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Actively participate and collaborate with team members to develop next-generation architecture.
• Define and scope new features for firewall appliance and central management software.
• Design, develop and maintain control plane infrastructure and features.
• Work with different development and quality assurance groups to achieve best quality. Suggest and implement improvements to development processes.
• Improve scale and performance of central management software.

• Development in Linux platform.
• Client/Server, distributed system development experience.
• Excellent C programming skills.
• Experience developing cluster solutions is desirable
• Experience with Zookeeper/Kafka or other messaging systems is a plus
• Network appliance development experience is a plus.
• Experience with appliance configuration management is a plus.
• Experience developing for cloud is a plus.
• MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5 years of relevant experience. Learn more about Palo Alto Networks HERE and check out our FAST FACTS