Senior Staff Engineer Software (SASE) - NetSec

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

Prisma Access™ combines the Internet connectivity/security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies, it extends the next-generation security protection to all cloud services and to its customers regardless of whether they are on-premise, on remote networks or mobile users. 

One part of Prisma Access™ is the Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) team, that protects your managed users through isolation. The public cloud market has been growing at a rapid rate for the last few years. Enterprise users are accessing corporate applications from anywhere. At times,the application access could be from a non-enterprise device.  Some industries are keen on enabling its employee access from his own device (BYOD). There is a growing need for creative engineers to help develop software to prevent cyberthreats within the cloud environment. Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) team In this role, you will develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems and critical cybersecurity challenges.

You love to code and build exceptional products, and you bring new ideas in all facets of software development. You are someone who is highly technical, understands browser internals and worked on any of the browser engines like Chromium or Webkit or Firefox. You love solving challenges for our customers in complex environments, and you aren’t deterred by the fact that much of this technology just has not been done before. In fact, you like the prospect of the challenge.

Your Impact

• Responsible for the complete software development process including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support.
• Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure.
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers.
• Participate actively and be a factor to design and development discussions.
• Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations.

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 5-9 years of solid experience in C++, JavaScript, Go.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript and related frameworks.
• Experience with QUIC and HTTP/3 is a bonus.
• Knowledge of browser engine fundamentals and flows with respect to the lifecycle of a web page - page fetch to render.
• Exposure to Chromium and Skia internals is a plus.
• Experience in WebAssembly is a plus.
• Deep knowledge of DOM events especially concerning user inputs - mouse, keyboard, touch etc.
• Experience working with the canvas elements, both 2D and WebGL canvas contexts.
• Extensive knowledge of web standards and modern browsers, responsive design, and of the full web technology stack.
• Experience implementing websocket based communication.
• Strong grasp on designing complex systems and on data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in building multithreaded concurrent systems.
• Experience of using cloud native functionalities/services using API/plugins. 
• Experience in developing solutions in using Docker, and cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and related technologies.
• General knowledge of network protocols, certificates, html, css, css box model.
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Additional Information

The Team

As part of the browser technologies team, you will be responsible for building products that protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their transitional journey to the cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The cloud market has been growing at a rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises use the public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in the public cloud.

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.

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