Senior Backend Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United Kingdom; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cortex Platform Application team in the UK. You will design, build, and operate critical backend services and customer-facing features, delivering reliable platform capabilities with strong ownership and cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architectural decisions, and mentoring while maintaining practical delivery and high quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend/platform software development.
• Strong hands-on experience with backend development using languages such as Go, Javascript, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, or similar.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, data modeling, APIs, reliability, observability, and production operations.
• Experience working in cloud-based environments.
• Ability to lead technical decisions while staying close to the code and implementation details.
• Strong ownership mindset, including accountability for production behavior, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards within a team.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams without relying on authority.
• Practical, collaborative, low-ego working style.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure backend services for the Cortex Platform.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, writing and reviewing production code for critical platform services.
• Lead technical design for complex backend and platform domains, balancing long-term architecture with practical delivery.
• Own and improve core platform capabilities used by internal engineering teams and Cortex customers.
• Drive operational excellence, including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, reliability, and participation in on-call.
• Mentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers through design guidance, code reviews, production work, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, security experts, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
• Identify gaps in systems, processes, and ownership, and lead improvements without adding unnecessary process or friction.
• Contribute to a calm, practical, low-ego engineering culture focused on ownership, execution, and continuous improvement.

Connaissances

Backend development

Go

JavaScript

Distributed systems

Cloud

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Outils

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Description du poste

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cortex Platform Application team in the UK. You will design, build, and operate critical backend services and customer-facing features, delivering reliable platform capabilities with strong ownership and cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architectural decisions, and mentoring while maintaining practical delivery and high quality.