Senior Principal Backend Architect | Cybersecurity Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal Backend Engineer in the Cortex group to lead the development and scaling of the backend for Cortex XSOAR, XDR, and XSIAM.

You will help design robust data pipelines, APIs, and services, partnering with product and security experts to deliver state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions. You will mentor engineers, own technical direction, and tackle complex distributed systems challenges, with a focus on Python, Go, and Java, cloud-native

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 14+ years of professional software engineering experience, focusing on distributed, cloud-native application development.
• Expert-level programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, with proven experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with cloud development, including REST APIs, databases, serverless computing, and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an acknowledged technical leader across engineering teams and provide consultation to ensure alignment.
• Drive the full lifecycle of projects from requirements gathering to final design and implementation, acting as a project lead or mentor.
• Lead the alignment of planned work across the product by partnering with product management, UX design, and engineering stakeholders.
• Utilize a big-picture perspective to identify, analyze, and provide practical solutions for complex existing and impending technical problems.
• Design, build, and optimize highly scalable data models and queries using technologies such as MySQL and BigQuery, focusing on performance.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud development

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ElasticSearch

Google Pub/Sub

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal Backend Engineer in the Cortex group to lead the development and scaling of the backend for Cortex XSOAR, XDR, and XSIAM.

You will help design robust data pipelines, APIs, and services, partnering with product and security experts to deliver state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions. You will mentor engineers, own technical direction, and tackle complex distributed systems challenges, with a focus on Python, Go, and Java, cloud-native