Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Platform)

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

75d • $140,000 - $230,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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 Go and/or Python
• 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 big–data 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 and SingleStore)
• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases
• Experience working in an agile and dynamic environment
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Compensation range between $140000 - $230000/YR
• Restricted stock units and a bonus
• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees