Director of Engineering - Firewall Data Lake

Company: Palo Alto Networks
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: June 24, 2022

Job Description:

Company DescriptionOur MissionAt Palo Alto Networks - everything starts and ends with our mission:Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren't easy goals to accomplish - but we're not here for easy. We're here for better. 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.Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We're changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we've rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.Job DescriptionYour Impact

• Drive development of highly scalable product and infrastructure features on our world-class data lake as part of our next generation cyber-security cloud platform
• Lead teams of distributed systems engineers leading by example, mentoring the team, and establishing credibility through quality technical execution
• Recruit and retain top technical talent required to deliver services
• Own the organizational objective of end-to-end services health and customer experience
• Develop communication programs to connect the team with the rest of the engineering and product organizations
• Cultivate a safe work culture that inspires individual decision-making and innovation
• Coach for frequent and effective feedback among team members
• Represent Cloud engineering and leadership at industry eventsQualificationsYour Experience
  • Domain expertise and solid skills in computer science, applied math, statistics, and machine learning, alongwith quantitative data analysis of large volumes of observational data
  • Practitioner experience in designing and developing high-performance distributed systems
  • Proficiency in core systems areas like operating systems, messaging and streaming systems, data management, consensus models, api management
  • Some combination of hands-on programming skills in native and managed language runtimes like C/C++, Java, Golang, Python
  • Passionate about management, coaching, and creating opportunities to support your directs success
  • Leadership style makes space for multiple senior engineers and supports the growth of everyone on your team to keep pace with rapid change
  • Able to weigh several, often conflicting constraints, and make quick decisions in a dynamic and quickly-growing company
  • Highly organized. With many people doing many things in a fast-paced company, strong organizational skills both for yourself and for the team is needed for success
  • Several years experience serving in an engineering management role in an Agile development environment
  • Previous experience building and running high-scale geographically distributed always-on systems plus a good mix of Unix toolchain and systems programming experience
  • Possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experienceAdditional InformationThe TeamDrawing on the near real-time data collected through PAN-OS device telemetry, our industry-leading next generation insights product (Device Insights) gives large cybersecurity operators a force multiplier that provides visibility into the health of their next-generation-firewall (NGFW) devices. It enables early detection of issues at various levels of the stack via advanced time-series forecasting and anomaly detection using novel deep learning techniques. Our goal is to be able to prevent service-impacting issues in critical security infrastructure that operates 24/7/365 with zero false positives and zero false negatives.Our CommitmentWe'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.Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we've rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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 guidelinesCovid-19 Vaccination Information for Palo Alto Networks Jobs
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