Sr Principal Software Engineer (Engineering Productivity / Platforms)

Company: Palo Alto Networks
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: September 16, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has a vision to secure the future and in order to make it a reality, the Platform organization is tasked with providing a platform of services that delight our users and accelerate the velocity and innovation of security products in the cloud. How we develop, build, test and ship our platform and products greatly impacts our ability in delivering the highest quality experience for all our users.

We are looking for humble, empathetic, self-motivated and passionate team members that constantly challenge the status quo, thrive in an evolving and fast-paced environment to find creative, efficient and high quality solutions to complex problems. We expect you to take healthy risks as you collaborate with engineering teams across the company to empower them in developing and delivering their products with the highest quality and velocity while ensuring security throughout the lifecycle.

As a Sr Principal Software Engineer on the Engineering Productivity/Platform team, you will be instrumental in elevating the innovation within the team as we champion a world-class engineering culture across the company. You will tremendously impact thousands of engineers and drive the technical vision and initiatives in source code management, build and test tooling, end-to-end CI/CD pipeline workflows while automating everything (well, everything that matters and should be automated). You will also get an opportunity to mentor junior engineers on the team and help them grow in their careers and rise to tackle more and more challenging problems.

Your Impact

Provide technical leadership, demonstrate and inspire engineering best practices to plan and execute critical, large-scale and company-wide projects

Scale the infrastructure, tools and frameworks needed to keep our thousands of developers in sync while sharing code, building, testing, releasing and deploying their applications and services continuously

Partner with every engineering team at Palo Alto Networks to develop solutions for challenges faced by them and increase developer delight, efficiency and productivity

Design, build and maintain tools and frameworks to automate the commit-deploy pipeline (including development, testing, release/deployment and monitoring) of our products and services

Simplify and increase visibility into the CI pipeline and enable easier and faster insights into potential problems

Mentor junior engineers and enable them to uplevel themselves

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