Senior Principal Backend Engineer - Scalable Cloud APIs

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Híbrido; USD 184.000 - 297.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Principal Backend Engineer to lead the backend of our unified vulnerability and exposure management module in XSIAM. You will help design scalable data models, APIs, and services across Cortex Platform, guiding multiple engineering teams and driving technical excellence.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, deep cloud experience, and delivering high-impact solutions for thousands of customers.

Formación

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 14+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus 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.
• Demonstrated experience as a hands-on technical lead or architect on complex software projects.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as an acknowledged technical leader, providing consultation and proactively collaborating across engineering teams 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, Spanner and BigQuery, focusing on the details to ensure performance.
• Develop robust business logic and API endpoints using Python and Fast API, and build high-performance backend services using Go.
• Proactively identify, articulate, and mitigate risks in projects to ensure smooth execution and high-quality output.
• Mentor and empower other engineers across the department, fostering a culture of technical excellence and applied learning.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Java

Cloud-native

Leadership

API design

Educación

Bachelor's/Master's in CS or related field

Herramientas

BigQuery

Google Pub/Sub

REST APIs

Serverless

Microservices

Descripción del empleo

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Principal Backend Engineer to lead the backend of our unified vulnerability and exposure management module in XSIAM. You will help design scalable data models, APIs, and services across Cortex Platform, guiding multiple engineering teams and driving technical excellence.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, deep cloud experience, and delivering high-impact solutions for thousands of customers.