Sr Staff Cross-Platform C++ Engineer (Cortex XDR)
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Job Summary
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!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. Thats why most of our teams work from the office full time with flexibility when its needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving stronger relationships and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Staff C Engineer to join our Tel Aviv R&D center and take a key engineering role within the Cross Platform Agent team.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of critical Cortex Agent components deployed across endpoint platforms (Windows macOS Linux) and cloud-native environments.
Build and maintain high-quality production-grade software in modern high-performance C owning the full lifecycle from design and implementation through automated test development and production support including the handling of escalated cases.
Own the ongoing maintenance hardening and operational stability of the Defender in cloud-native environments.
Own the reliability and operational stability of the Defender components written in Go (Golang) focusing on production support incident investigation root-cause analysis and hardening in large-scale cloud-native customer environments.
Address complex security reliability and performance challenges across large-scale endpoint fleets and distributed cloud environments including Kubernetes containers and container runtimes.
Investigate and resolve complex production and field issues translating operational insights into scalable resilient and efficient system improvements.
Raise the bar on engineering quality by effectively leveraging AI tools in software engineering leading pragmatic design discussions conducting focused code reviews and continuously improving system robustness correctness and performance.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
5 years of hands-on experience developing production-grade systems in modern C (C14/17/20).
Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive hands-on mindset; able to work independently operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and collaborate to drive technical alignment within a team.
Proven ability to design build and own complex software components contributing across the full software development lifecycle - from design through production support.
Solid experience with multi-threaded and multi-process systems with a strong focus on performance scalability and efficient CPU and memory utilization.
Experience working in cloud-native environments including Kubernetes containers and container runtimes (e.g. Docker CRI-O).
. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Background in cybersecurity particularly in endpoint security cloud security EDR or CDR systems.
Experience working with Go (Golang).
Understanding of Linux OS internals including processes memory management syscalls and userspace-kernel interactions particularly in the context of cloud workloads.
Experience with low-level Linux observability or tracing technologies (e.g. ptrace perf fanotify).
Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS GCP Azure and etc.) and their compute platforms (VMs containers serverless).
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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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.
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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.Required Experience:
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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 ... View more
