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Sr Staff Software Engineer - NGFW Dataplane

Palo Alto Networks

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Sep 4, 2025
Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Palo Alto Networks is looking for Software Engineers to join their Next-gen Firewall dataplane team to design and develop cutting-edge firewall technologies, addressing real-world cyber-attacks.

Requirements

  • Experience in common network protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, multicast.
  • Experience in dataplane technologies like DPDK based packet processing.
  • Experience in typical network device features like NAT, ALG, DoS Protection.
  • Experience in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems.
  • In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations.
  • In-depth understanding of linux systems.
  • C, Python, Shell script programming skills.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for development of the critical dataplane components for the State-of-the-art Next Generation Firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments
  • Lead L2-L4 network security feature development
  • Lead next generation security product development
  • Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner
  • Work with multi-functional team members on user requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc.
  • Apply your knowledge to functional design
  • Utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation

Other

  • Motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals
  • Take ownership for large software components
  • Work with product management on real life customer requirements
  • Interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle.
  • Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups.