Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Backend)
Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Backend)
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Job Description
Your Career
We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex backend engineering group.
The group develops and maintains the backend of Cortex products - Cortex XSOAR Cortex XDR and Cortex XSIAM. You will join a team focused on developing innovating and scaling the Cortex Platform along with contributing to shared Cortex infrastructures and components. We are looking for candidates with a can-do attitude who are passionate about complex problems and thrive on bringing value to thousands of customers.
Your Impact
End-to-end backend development of features and components across their entire life cycle (design develop test deploy maintain)
Work closely with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product
Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews design reviews technical and architectural decisions
Production oriented approach with providing real time mitigation and solutions to production issues
Proactively review design identify risks and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution
Design build and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
Qualifications :
Your Experience
M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 8 years of software engineering experience including development of a scalable server-side application
Extensive hands-on programming skills in Python and/or Go
Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g. understanding of lock-free data structures bloom filters minimal perfect hashing consistent hashing etc)
Proven Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP / AWS / Azure)
Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes GKE EKS AKS Docker Serverless etc)
Experience with bigdata architectures (using Kafka Splunk Flink etc)
Experience with distributed computing (understand implications of CAP theorem master election brain split problem) and/or distributed DB/KVP (BigQuery Elastic Search Kafka/PubSub and SingleStore)
Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases
Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved
Experience with the agile process and working with software development teams involved with building out full stack products deployed on the cloud at scale
High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra
Familiarity with Cyber Technologies Information Security and Software Security
Additional Information :
The Team
Input by recruiter and audited by recruiting specialist
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $150000-$216000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
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.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
