Senior Backend Engineer, Cortex Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in San Francisco, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Cortex backend engineering group.

You will lead end-to-end backend development for Cortex Platform components, designing, implementing, and scaling core services to serve thousands of customers. You will collaborate across teams, engage with customers, participate in architectural decisions, and ensure reliability and performance of distributed server-side applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building scalable server-side applications.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with distributed cloud products and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end backend development of features and core components through design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Collaborate with peers across teams to design and integrate effective solutions.
• Engage with customers to understand challenges and provide robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to team-wide technical and architectural decisions and participate in reviews.
• Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed server-side applications for reliability and performance.
• Focus on maintainable code for shared Cortex infrastructures and components.
• Apply learning from new challenges to improve system architecture and processes.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed cloud

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

GCP/AWS/Azure

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in San Francisco, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Cortex backend engineering group.

You will lead end-to-end backend development for Cortex Platform components, designing, implementing, and scaling core services to serve thousands of customers. You will collaborate across teams, engage with customers, participate in architectural decisions, and ensure reliability and performance of distributed server-side applications.