Principal Backend Engineer (Cortex Platform)

Our Mission

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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

We are seeking a Principal Engineer for our Cortex Platform team to build and scale the systems that power the future of cybersecurity. You will help prevent detect and respond to threats by working on an integrated endpoint network and cloud data platform ultimately reducing noise and allowing focus on real threats.

• Design build and maintain a highly scalable distributed cloud infrastructure capable of processing billions of events per second.

• Own the complete software development lifecycle from requirement analysis and design to development deployment and ongoing support.

• Write clean testable readable and maintainable code with a focus on performance and scalability.

• Proactively collaborate and exchange information with cross-functional teams to accomplish shared objectives and build industry-leading cyber products.

• Analyze and solve complex engineering problems at scale ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our data storage and processing systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related technical field or equivalent military or practical experience.

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Proven experience in developing and maintaining distributed cloud products.

• Experience in designing building and maintaining scalable server-side applications.

• Hands-on experience with a variety of database technologies such as MySQL Cassandra Google BigQuery Amazon Redshift Elasticsearch or Neo4j.

• Experience with Go and/or Python.

• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Knowledge and experience within the cybersecurity domain.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Cortex Platform - Cortex is the industrys only open and integrated AI-based continuous security platform. Cortex is a significant evolution of the Application Framework designed to simplify security operations and considerably improve outcomes. Deployed on a global scalable public cloud platform Cortex allows security operations teams to speed the analysis of massive data sets.

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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