Principal Engineer Software (NetSec UI)

Company Description

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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Principal Software UI/Frontend Engineer of the Netsec Visualization and Reporting team, you will collaborate with the product managers, UX designers, and UI engineers to design and deliver the most innovative solution that generates insights into our customers’ network security infrastructure and empowers the security administrators to do their best work. 

You will lead engineering best practices, coach and mentor team members, architect, design, and implement application features, introduce new tools and libraries; and help solve the most challenging technical problems within the engineering UI team.

Your Impact

• Passionate in building highly graphical and scalable web application features that give customers insights into their firewalls and provide actionable solution suggestions
• Work on complex problems that require in-depth evaluation of the requirements and apply engineering techniques to obtain quality results
• Identify problems and opportunities, propose and develop simple and attainable solutions to improve the team’s development process and product quality
• Be the role model in establishing and implementing engineering best practices, including test-driven development
• Drive collaborative discussion and create synergy among product feature stakeholders to create an amazing product

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
• Minimum 8 years of related programming experience required
• Expertise in building web-based GUI development with excellent ReactJS, TypeScript, and JavaScript programming skills
• Experienced in modern web frameworks and build tools such as React, Redux, Hooks, Webpack, Storybook, and npm/yarn
• Experience with CSS/SCSS, AG Grid, and visualization libraries such as Highcharts, D3.js
• Experience with creating responsive web applications
• Ability to work well with a group of senior and junior engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Experience with UI test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, react-testing-library, Mocha
• Experience with client-side modern build tools, and CI/CD
• Experience with Git Version Control and Linux environments

Additional Information

The Team

The NetSec UI team is responsible for delivering UI solutions to our customers at Palo Alto Networks. Our team has a unique position in driving efforts to create accessible, performant, and cutting edge UI and data visualization components/modules.

We foster a culture of innovation, authenticity, and collaboration. Our people make this possible. It’s in our everyday interactions, how we work together and treat each other, that sets Palo Alto Networks apart from other organizations.

Compensation Disclosure

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000 - $237500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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.