Senior Email Security Software Engineer

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Software Engineer to lead a cutting-edge email security solution within the Cortex platform. You will design and build infrastructure for billions of events per second, enabling threat detection and secure, scalable processing across unsecured channels.

Based in the TLV-centered Cortex engineering group with strong collaboration across teams, you will explore new technologies, drive architecture, and deliver high-impact features with excellence and speed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in production SaaS environment.
• Experience with high-scale distributed systems.
• Degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (Gemini, Claude).
• Proficiency in at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Creative thinker, independent, and a strong team player.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a brand new product, driving its development from concept and design to full implementation
• Focus on meaningful, high impact work, building major parts of a groundbreaking new product
• Build a new offering designed to operate at massive scale
• Dive into new cutting-edge technologies, researching and integrating them to enhance the product’s capabilities

Skills

Software engineering

SaaS experience

Cloud proficiency

Communication skills

Problem solving

Team player

Creative thinking

Troubleshooting

Education

B.Sc./M.Sc. in CS or related field

Tools

Python

Golang

Gemini

Claude

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Software Engineer to lead a cutting-edge email security solution within the Cortex platform. You will design and build infrastructure for billions of events per second, enabling threat detection and secure, scalable processing across unsecured channels.

Based in the TLV-centered Cortex engineering group with strong collaboration across teams, you will explore new technologies, drive architecture, and deliver high-impact features with excellence and speed.