Principal Backend Engineer (CWP- Cortex Cloud)

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks we are committed to building a safer digital future. As a Principal Software Engineer in Cortex Cloud you will work at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation building cloud-native solutions that protect some of the largest organizations in the world. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team building a new product from the ground up shaping the architecture technology stack and engineering practices from day one.

Youll not only write great code youll influence product strategy design scalable systems and help drive key decisions that will shape the future of cloud workload protection.

A key part of this role is championing and leveraging the latest generative AI tools and assistants (such as Gemini) in your day-to-day engineering workflow. We expect you to utilize these advanced tools to accelerate the development lifecyclefrom ideation and coding to root-cause analysis testing and system optimization.

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Your Impact

• Play a key role in building cloud-native security features that protect real-world workloads from malware secrets exposure and other threats
• Lead the development of major features from product discussions and technical design to implementation and testing
• Design and build scalable backend services using Golang and modern cloud-native technologies
• Research and integrate new technologies to improve detection performance and platform capabilities
• Help define best practices and drive engineering excellence across the team

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Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 8 years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering 
• Experience in Go/Python/Java or similar languages with a strong emphasis on writing clean maintainable and well-tested code
• Strong grasp of engineering fundamentals including system design data structures and algorithms
• Demonstrated experience with modern development standards including CI/CD pipelines comprehensive testing methodologies (unit integration E2E) and rigorous code reviews
• . Computer Science Software and Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience
• Proficiency in at least one cloud provider (AWS GCP Azure) 
• Experienced with observability (monitoring logging tracing) profiling and enhancing system performance

Advantage

• Experience in Go - strong advantage
• Experience in building and managing distributed cloud-based SaaS applications
• Experience in cyber-security domain

Additional Information :

The Team

Our team within Cortex Cloud working under the Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) organization. Product focused on serverless scanning and posture management detecting malware and secrets in cloud assets during both deploy and runtime stages.

Were developing those capabilities from scratch new codebases services and architecture while bringing deep domain expertise from our past work at Prisma cloud. Each team member is involved across the entire lifecycle: product discussions technical design implementation and production readiness.

We collaborate closely with PMs security researchers and other Cortex engineering teams to deliver high-impact cloud-native solutions that scale.

If youre excited about building a high-impact product from scratch and want to make a meaningful difference in cloud security wed love to meet you.

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Our Commitment

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

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at  .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time