Staff Engineer - Cortex Vulnerability Platform

Palo Alto Networks; United States; On-site; USD 126,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is hiring an experienced Software Engineer for the Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team. You will help build a unified vulnerability and exposure management experience within XSIAM, visualizing, prioritizing, and remediating posture security issues in customer environments.

You’ll design, implement, and maintain features, participate in architecture discussions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive high-quality output and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience across backend and frontend with best practices.
• Able to switch between research, design, and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the unified vulnerability and exposure management experience.
• Participate in architecture strategy sessions across Cortex groups.
• Collaborate to reduce technical debt and improve engineering practices.
• Champion test-driven development and production support.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Frontend development

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

CI/CD

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Go

Angular

React

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is hiring an experienced Software Engineer for the Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team. You will help build a unified vulnerability and exposure management experience within XSIAM, visualizing, prioritizing, and remediating posture security issues in customer environments.

You’ll design, implement, and maintain features, participate in architecture discussions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive high-quality output and production readiness.