Distinguished Engineer Software (Cortex Platform)
About The Position
As a Distinguished Engineer for the Cortex Platform, you will be a key technical leader driving innovation, development, and scaling of cybersecurity products including Cortex Cloud, XSOAR, XDR, and XSIAM. You will architect shared infrastructure and address complex backend challenges to deliver value to enterprise customers. Using AI-native architectures and cloud technologies, you will optimize data-processing pipelines and distributed systems to help address critical cybersecurity threats. Cortex is an open, integrated, AI-based continuous security platform deployed on a global, scalable public cloud platform. It helps security operations teams analyze massive data sets more quickly. The company describes its work model as primarily office-based, with flexibility when needed; the role is also marked hybrid.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 14+ years of professional software engineering experience, focused on distributed, cloud-native application development.
- Expert-level programming skills in Python and Go, with proven experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, operating systems, databases, and storage systems.
- Extensive cloud development experience, including REST APIs, databases, serverless computing, and microservices architectures.
- Demonstrated experience as a hands-on technical lead or architect on complex software projects.
- Experience architecting or implementing AI/ML-powered systems and familiarity with modern LLM-based technologies.
- Exceptional technical judgment, communication, collaboration, and ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as Elasticsearch, Google Pub/Sub, or similar.
- Deep understanding of public cloud design considerations, including security, global network infrastructure, and load balancing.
- Ability to make data-driven trade-off judgments and strong troubleshooting skills to isolate and resolve complex issues.
- Experience working in an agile environment with cross-functional teams to deliver full-stack products at scale.
- Familiarity with security operations, threat detection, cloud security posture management, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
Responsibilities
- Drive long-term technical vision and architecture for critical Cortex platforms and services.
- Design highly scalable, secure, and cost-efficient distributed systems for processing massive data volumes.
- Provide technical leadership and consultation, collaborating across engineering teams to ensure alignment.
- Lead cross-team architecture decisions, balancing scalability, performance, operational complexity, and engineering velocity.
- Architect and optimize cloud-native infrastructure, data pipelines, distributed storage, and real-time analytics platforms.
- Own and resolve complex technical challenges spanning multiple services, teams, and cybersecurity products.
- Drive adoption of AI-native architectures, agentic AI, and intelligent automation across engineering workflows.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI to accelerate development, testing, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
Benefits
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed in the description.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
