Cloud Software Engineer  (Contract)

Job Description

Your Career

We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for talent engineers who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

• Location - Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid) - Must be local to the SF Bay area to be onsite
• Duration -  8 months 

Your Impact

• Participate in the design and implementation of threat prevention & AppID cloud services for public cloud and private cloud features
• Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Provide real-time security services to customers
• Work with PLM on new feature requirement
• Work with QA and DevOps on new release deployment
• Work with support to handle customer issues
• Work with security researchers and data scientist on a new feature request

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Solid programming skills in GoLang, Python or Java
• Solid knowledge and skills on Linux
• Solid skills with Kubernetes and Docker
• Rich GCP experience is a plus
• Solid knowledge of web servers/proxies such as NGINX, envoy
• 3 years of working experience on data infrastructure platforms
• Strong micro-service development experience
• Rich Experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis
• Hands-on experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, experience with Pub/Sub is a plus 
• Solid skills in multi-threads and multi-processes programming and experience in a distributed system are preferred
• DevOps experience a plus
• Teamwork, problem-solving and a can-do attitude

Compensation

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer, this is the pay range that Magnit (the staffing agency) reasonably expects to pay for this position: $65/hour to $70/hour. Please note that the compensation information in this posting reflects the hourly wage only and does not include benefits. Magnit offers Medical, Dental, Vision and 401K. Magnit is not able to provide assistance to candidates requiring sponsorship or a visa for this position.

Information about Palo Alto Networks

At 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.