Sr. Staff Engineer Software (Strata Logging Service)

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 believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

Strata Logging Service (SLS) powers advanced cybersecurity innovations by providing a unique capability to normalize and correlate data across the entire enterprise. SLS can:

• Radically simplify customer security operations by collecting, integrating, and normalizing an enterprise's security data
• Easily run advanced analytics at cloud scale, supported by the data and compute power you need
• Constantly learns from new data sources to evolve customer defenses

SLS is built to benefit from public cloud scale and locations ready for elastic scale, eliminating the need for local compute and storage. SLS has strict privacy and security controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or identifiable information. Its infrastructure is secured with industry-standard best practices for security and confidentiality, including rigorous technical and organizational security controls.

Your Impact

• Tackle new and challenging problems by building a new generation of highly scaled data processing and analytics systems
• Contribute in architecture, design and development of features
• Solve complex problems in pipeline scaling and data storage to facilitate dashboards
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development processes
• Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects

Your Experience

Must have

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications
• Must have extensive hands-on programming skills in Java and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of design patterns
• Good communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

• Strong knowledge of databases SQL, NoSQL, Time series, GraphDB etc
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP , their services (DataFlow, BQ, Athena etc) and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Linux fundamentals and networked computing environment concepts

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating - challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don't shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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 $107500 - $175000/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.

Client-provided location(s): Santa Clara, CA

Job ID: Palo_Alto_Networks-JR-012405

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-11-23T19:49:44