Experienced Backend Engineer (Cortex Agentix)
Palo Alto Networks4 days ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop efficient, production-ready software for LLM platform concerns including latency, context optimization, and determinism.
- Build foundational automation infrastructure that enables contributors to publish content to the Cortex platform.
- Maintain automation execution pipelines, script automation, software delivery workflows, and continuous quality governance.
- Partner with senior engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design and deploy platform automation capabilities.
- Implement telemetry, execution tracking, and observability for software services.
Requirements
- 3–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and working knowledge of Go.
- Understanding of prompting techniques and context management strategies.
- Hands-on experience with system design principles and microservice architectures.
- Experience with codebase execution, end-to-end testing, and automated release workflows.
- Familiarity with security workflows, REST APIs, and automated response capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Bash scripting, containerized build environments, and automated deployment scripting.
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.
- The employer provides equal employment opportunity and confidentiality protections under EEO guidelines.
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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.