Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We
are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are
done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of
cybersecurity as we are.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in
protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our
team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by
employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive
innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with
integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast,
value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing
we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are
designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits
wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our
mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just
to name a few!
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
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 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. Google Cloud Platform / 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
Additional Information
The Team
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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 $140000 - $230000/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
We're problem solvers that 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
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.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 10312220
- Position Id: ff3406f1dd704e01df976af3031770b
- Posted 30+ days ago
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