Principal Engineer Software - Backend Infrastructure (Cortex)

Your Career

We are looking for Principal Engineer Software to be a part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation. You will design and build an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industry’s leading cyber products.

Your Impact

• Your impact will make waves in and out of the Cortex Platform group, as our team serves parties from all over the organization
• You will get a front-row seat to a monstrous-scale production product, in which every line of code matters in terms of cost, efficiency, and use experience

Your Experience

• BS in Computer Science, equivalent knowledge or equivalent military experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience - Must
• Experience in distributed cloud products - Must
• Experienced with a variety of database technologies (Mysql / Cassandra / Google BigQuery / Amazon Redshift / ElasticSearch)
• Experience with writing CI-CD pipelines - advantage
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining a scalable server side application
• Experience in Go / Python - an advantage
• Experience with GCP - advantage
• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker - advantage
• Knowledge of the cyber field - advantage

The Team 

The infrastructure team is a part of the Cortex Platform group. it is a highly technical and multidisciplinary team. The team is detached from the product roadmap, as we are fully dedicated to backend infra - developing shared components, tackling high-scale infrastructure issues, monitoring tools, setting the bar for technical acumen, and making our group developer experience better. You will get the chance to work closely with DevOps teams, Pipeline teams, dev teams (in and out of the group), and automation teams all in which to make the Platform Group (and others) work better.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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 [email protected].

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.

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