Senior Staff Engineer Software (Cortex Platform)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead 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 shared Cortex infrastructure and components and participate in technical and architectural decisions.
- Collaborate across teams, participate in code and design reviews, and integrate effective technical solutions.
- Engage with customers to understand operational challenges and provide robust technical solutions.
- Improve system architecture, implementation quality, simplicity, maintainability, and development processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 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, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are available according to the company’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.