Senior Principal Backend Engineer (CORTEX - Autonomous SOC)
Palo Alto Networks1 day ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build infrastructure that stores, processes, and exposes billions of events per second.
- Develop scalable server-side applications for integrated endpoint, network, and cloud data.
- Own the complete software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, deployment, and support.
- Write clean, testable, readable, efficient, scalable, and maintainable code.
- Drive the inception, strategy, and execution of the Autonomous SOC investigation and response solution.
- Collaborate with leading cybersecurity products and work independently within a startup-oriented team.
Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience with distributed cloud products and scalable server-side application design, development, and maintenance.
- Experience with MySQL, Cassandra, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, or Elasticsearch.
- Experience with agentic tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
- BSc in Computer Science, equivalent knowledge, or equivalent military experience.
- Go or Python experience is advantageous.
- GCP experience is advantageous.
- Knowledge of graph databases is advantageous.
- Kubernetes and Docker experience is advantageous.
- Knowledge of the cybersecurity field is advantageous.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The company provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache CassandraDockerElasticsearchGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMySQLPython
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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.