Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform)
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Your Career
The Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team is expanding and were looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join our team. This team is responsible for building unified vulnerability and exposure management experience within XSIAM. This experience involves visualizing prioritizing and remediating the posture security problems (vulnerabilities misconfigurations etc) in the customers environment.
Your Impact
Design build and maintain the features for the unified vulnerability and exposure management experience
Take part in architecture strategy sessions - design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various groups across Cortex
Collaborate with teams to solve problems reduce technical debt and evolve development practices
Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering org
Collaborate with other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output
Take ownership of projects drive them to completion and support them in production
Be a champion of test driven development
Qualifications :
Your Experience
6 years of experience as a professional software engineer writing software
Strong Proficiency in Python
Experienced and opinionated about Software development and best practices across backend and frontend
Able to switch between research design prototype and implementation
Working knowledge of at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg GCP AWS or Azure) preferably GCP
Experience with CI/CD process
Strong problem solving skills
Technical team leadership
Nice To Haves
Experience with Go Angular and React
Common understanding of CVEs or Software vulnerabilities
Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and vulnerability methodologies
Proficiency in Linux and Windows operating systems
Demonstrates a basic understanding of how a variety of exploits work and shows skills in enumerating and selecting the correct exploit for a given system
Experience with Jenkins or Gitlab Runners
Experience with Grafana and Prometheus
Experience with StackDriver for log based debugging
Experience working in vulnerability management domain
Experience working with BigQuery
Additional Information :
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 $147000 - $237500 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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in hi ... View more
