Senior Staff Backend Engineer, Cortex Platform

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California (MO)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 218,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Cortex Platform. You will lead backend development for Cortex XSOAR/XDR/XSIAM and AI solutions, building scalable services across on-prem and SaaS, while driving architectural decisions with cross-functional teams.

You will solve complex distributed system challenges, help scale the Cortex platform, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced cybersecurity environment.

Qualifications

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field with 5–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
4+ years of Go and Python programming experience.
5+ years designing and building distributed cloud products on major platforms; containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.
Strong Linux/Unix skills and experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
Solid understanding of distributed computing and CAP, master election, and split-brain scenarios.
Experience with production troubleshooting and customer-facing support.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end development of backend features for Cortex products.
Design and maintain highly scalable, distributed server-side applications.
Collaborate across teams to architect solutions and share responsibility for product development.
Provide production mitigation and support for both SaaS and on-prem environments.
Contribute to architecture decisions and leverage AI tools to improve Cortex.