Senior Backend Engineer Data Security KotlinJava (Cortex Cloud)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here everyone has a voice and every idea counts. If youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

The Team

Job Summary

In this role you will be dedicated to safeguarding our clients data within the dynamic cloud landscape. As an expert in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for SaaS and DBaaS you will develop cutting-edge solutions for data discovery classification and protection across platforms like Snowflake Databricks and MongoDB Atlas. Your work will focus on proactively identifying and eliminating risks ensuring our clients sensitive information remains secure compliant and accessible only to authorized users empowering them to grow their business securely.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive innovation by designing and implementing impactful solutions that address client needs contributing to the full feature development lifecycle from design to deployment.

• Take ownership of specific feature segments ensuring high-quality code and robust functionality through meticulous attention to detail and a focus on execution.

• Proactively collaborate and exchange information with cross-functional teams including product and infrastructure to ensure seamless integration and alignment on shared objectives.

• Challenge the status quo by generating innovative ideas and actively participating in brainstorming sessions to foster product and architectural improvements.

• Actively engage in technical discussions openly sharing knowledge and learning from others to solve complex problems and elevate team expertise.

• Design and build highly scalable resilient and secure cloud-based applications and microservices.

• Contribute to an agile and dynamic engineering culture demonstrating a strong drive and outstanding communication skills to deliver results efficiently.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience with a strong preference for Java or Kotlin with Spring Boot.

• Proven experience designing and building large-scale scalable cloud-based applications.

• Expertise in microservices architecture including technologies like Kubernetes Docker GKE EKS or AKS.

• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB) and ORMs (e.g. JPA Hibernate).

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience (e.g. elite software unit in the military).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional programming languages such as Go.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation.

• Experience with big-data architectures and technologies (e.g. Kafka Splunk Flink).

• Knowledge of cybersecurity information security and software security principles.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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