Experienced Backend & AI Engineer (Cortex XSIAM)

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

Your Career:
Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced Backend & AI Engineer to join our Cortex engineering group focusing on Cortex XSOAR Cortex XSIAM and next-generation AI this role you will contribute to the implementation and ongoing maintenance of robust backend services that power our leading-edge security orchestration automation and response platforms.

Your Impact:

• Innovate with AI: Work alongside senior mentors to design and implement AI-based solutions for internal workflows and external product features leveraging modern frameworks to solve complex security challenges.

• Drive the Lifecycle: Participate in the full development lifecycle of backend services - from initial design and coding to testing deployment and maintenance - ensuring high performance and scalability.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align on product integrations and contribute to high-quality code through peer reviews and collaborative design sessions.

• Maintain a production-oriented mindset helping to monitor troubleshoot and optimize services to ensure platform reliability for our global customers.

• Mentorship & Growth: Work directly with Principal Engineers to level up your architectural thinking coding standards and technical leadership skills.

Qualifications

Your Experience:

• 23 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on building server-side applications using Go Python or Java.

• Practical AI development experience and curiosity: hands-on experience building or integrating AI capabilities whether for personal projects or as part of your day-to-day role. You should have experience engaging with AI as a developer (e.g. working with LLM APIs prompt engineering RAG implementations or AI frameworks) rather than solely as an end user.

• Backend Fundamentals: Solid understanding of RESTful APIs database technologies (SQL/NoSQL) and software design patterns.

• A proactive approach to troubleshooting and a desire to maintain high-availability services.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud-native environments (GCP AWS or Azure).

• Familiarity with high-scale distributed systems and performance tuning.

• Exposure to containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

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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