Staff Software Engineer- Cloud Core BE

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

We are looking for a driven technically curious Staff Backend Developer to join a cutting-edge team focused on Agentless Scanning within Cortex Cloud Palo Alto Networks next-generation cloud security platform. Based in our Tel Aviv (TLV) office you will be at the forefront of cloud security innovation. Our teams mission is to help Cortex Cloud customers discover understand and fix security vulnerabilities in their workloads across all major cloud providers. This role is ideal for a proactive engineer with a strong can-do attitude a passion for solving complex technical problems and a desire to grow rapidly alongside experienced mentors. If you love digging into backend systems and want to see your code directly impact global enterprise customers we want to hear from you!

Your Impact

• Hands-on Backend Development: Contribute to the design development testing and deployment of features and core components within the Agentless domain.

• Feature Ownership: Collaborate closely with senior team members and partners across Cortex Cloud to deliver high-quality features from inception to production.

• Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Help build robust solutions that address the day-to-day security challenges faced by our customers.

• Continuous Learning & Collaboration: Actively participate in team-wide engineering practices including code reviews technical discussions and agile processes to continuously elevate your skills.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Backend Engineering: 2 years of professional experience contributing to production-grade backend services. You should be comfortable navigating existing codebases and delivering features independently.

• Languages: Experience in at least one major backend language (Go Java Python Rust C# or ). While Go (Golang) is our primary stack we value polyglot engineers who are excited to master Go and write idiomatic clean code.

• Engineering Fundamentals: Solid understanding of data structures algorithms and the basics of RESTful API design. You should have an understanding of distributed systems design.

• Quality Standards: A test-first mindset. Experience writing unit and integration tests and a commitment to participating in (and learning from) rigorous code reviews.

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Familiarity with at least one major cloud provider (AWS GCP or Azure).

• Education: . in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent technical/military experience.

Advantages

• Reliability & Debugging: Experience using observability tools (e.g. Datadog Prometheus or ELK stack) to troubleshoot issues in a production environment.

• Go Fundamentals: Experience with Gos concurrency model (goroutines/channels) or a strong desire to dive deep into the language.

• SaaS Curiosity: Experience working on a multi-tenant product or a keen interest in distributed systems architecture.

• AI Interest: Hands-on experimentation with LLMs or an interest in how AI agents are integrated into backend workflows.

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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