Sr Principal UI Engineer

Santa Clara, CA, United States

Company Description 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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description Your Career

Our NetSec UI Engineering team is set out to build best-in-class, novel data visualization experiences that are custom to the cybersecurity use cases, for all the product teams across Network Security vertical at Palo Alto Networks. As a Data Visualization Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, your work will directly reach, and empower our products that are revolutionizing the cybersecurity industry.

Your Impact

Collaborate cross functionally with designers, data visualization experts, and engineers on the NetSec UI team to implement and support the reusable, and customizable data visualization components

Implement an architecture for the data visualization library that is scalable to multiple JS frameworks, and in the future Web Components

Write quality, and meaningful tests, and documentation to ensure easy adoption of the data visualization library

Create a playground GUI with a custom settings bar that users can play around with to tweak the different properties of the visualization

Qualifications Your Experience

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required

10+ years professional experience as a data visualization /front-end engineer

Portfolio showcasing data visualization development proficiency

Great team player, willing to take on new challenging tasks

Self-driven with ability to work both independently and within a team environment to accomplish goals and objectives

Expertise in JavaScript, D3, WebGL, and/or Shader language GL/SL, HTML, CSS

Experience massaging large raw datasets to work well with simple and intuitive data visualization

Familiarity with client-side modern build processes & tools - Webpack/Rollup

Comfortable with maintaining, and contributing to code repositories using git, GitHub/GitLab or other version control

Ability to create quick prototypes for data visualization projects with D3js

Bonus Points

Strong in frontend web development technologies, including ReactJS, TypeScript, with bonus points for experience with animation

Familiarity or willingness to learn data visualization technologies like VegaJS, ThreeJS, Observable Plot or new cutting edge libraries

Passion for building performant, interactive and accessible data visualization components

Additional Information The Team

The NetSec UI team is responsible for delivering UI solutions to our customers at Palo Alto Networks. Our team has a unique position in driving efforts to create accessible, performant, and cutting edge UI and data visualization components/modules.

We foster a culture of innovation, authenticity, and collaboration. Our people make this possible. It’s in our everyday interactions, how we work together and treat each other, that sets Palo Alto Networks apart from other organizations.

Our Commitment

We’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.

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 [email protected].

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.

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 $170,000/yr to $275,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be foundhere.