Sr. Principal Backend 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 a visionary Sr. Principal Backend Engineer to shape the future of our Cortex this highly impactful role you will act as a technical pioneer and an architectural challenger for our leading-edge security orchestration automation and response platform.

Bringing an entrepreneurial mindset and a deep understanding of the competitive business landscape you will critically evaluate our core systems champion system quality and drive rapid prototyping (POCs) for innovative AI-based solutions. This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned technologistperhaps a former founderwho wants to keep their hands in the code while shaping our strategic direction and pushing the boundaries of AI-driven cybersecurity.

• Challenge the Architecture: Bring a fresh external perspective to critically evaluate our core systems and drive uncompromising standards for quality and resilience.

• Prototype & Innovate (POCs): Keep your hands in the code by rapidly prototyping GenAI integrations and evaluating new models before they are scaled by the broader team.

• Think Like a Founder: Deeply understand our business competitive landscape and market trends to ensure technical decisions drive real business value.

• Industry Presence: Stay ahead of the curve by actively engaging with the broader tech community tracking trends and attending industry conferences.

• Lead & Elevate: Guide cross-functional teams lead high-level design reviews and elevate our engineering culture through technical mentorship.

Qualifications

• Must have proven experience in building and deploying scaled AI systems in production environments.

• 10 years of software engineering experience with a deep architectural background in scalable server-side applications.

• Passion for coding at the POC level: You still love to get your hands dirty with code but your focus is on rapid prototyping evaluating new technologies and building Proofs of Concept to guide the engineering teams.

• Demonstrated experience designing and integrating Generative AI solutions into enterprise backend architectures backed by a strong grasp of models frameworks and prompting techniques.

• Deep expertise with a variety of database technologies and major distributed cloud platforms (GCP AWS Azure)

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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