Senior/Principal Backend Engineer - Cortex Platform and Application
Palo Alto Networks2 days ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and improve scalable, reliable, and secure backend services for the Cortex Platform.
- Write and review production code and lead technical design for complex backend and platform domains.
- Own platform capabilities supporting Cortex customers and internal engineering teams.
- Drive observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, reliability, and on-call operations.
- Improve documentation, testing, design reviews, ownership models, and production-readiness practices.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product managers, architects, security experts, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
- Lead cross-team technical improvements and provide practical guidance for internal platform users.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional backend or platform software development experience.
- Hands-on backend development experience with Go, JavaScript, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, data modeling, APIs, reliability, observability, and production operations.
- Experience with cloud-based environments and the ability to lead technical decisions while remaining hands-on.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards within a team.
- Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and cross-team influence skills.
- Preferred experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, internal platforms, shared services, multi-tenant systems, permissions, configuration, notifications, auditing, metrics, or reporting infrastructure.
- Preferred experience leading cross-team technical initiatives and improving testing, documentation, design, incident-review, or ownership practices.
- Experience in cybersecurity, SaaS platforms, or enterprise-scale backend systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
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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.