Staff Engineer Software (Cortex Platform) - US Citizen
Palo Alto Networks9 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$112k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end backend development of features and core components through design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed server-side applications with strong reliability and performance.
- Contribute to technical and architectural decisions, code reviews, and design reviews.
- Collaborate across teams and disciplines to design and integrate effective solutions.
- Engage with customers to understand operational challenges and provide robust technical solutions.
- Improve the simplicity, maintainability, architecture, and development processes of shared Cortex infrastructure and components.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience designing and building scalable server-side applications.
- Experience with database technologies including RDBMS and NoSQL systems.
- Experience designing and working with distributed cloud products and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in Python or Go.
- Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Preferred: experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship or work-visa sponsorship.
- Employee benefits information is available through the employer’s benefits program.
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.