Senior Staff Engineer Software (Cortex XSOAR)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead full-lifecycle backend feature development for Cortex XSOAR across on-premises and SaaS environments, from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with teams across disciplines to shape solutions and integrate shared-responsibility products with other product components.
- Provide real-time mitigation and solutions for production issues.
- Engage with customers and support teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Contribute to innovative AI-based solutions and shared infrastructure across the Cortex product line.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building scalable server-side applications.
- At least 4 years of extensive hands-on programming experience with Go and Python.
- At least 5 years of experience designing and working with distributed cloud products on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/Unix operating systems, command-line tools, networking, shell scripting, RDBMS, and NoSQL databases.
- Strong understanding of distributed computing concepts including CAP theorem, master election, and split-brain problems.
- Proven production troubleshooting and customer-response experience.
- Preferred qualifications include strong computer science fundamentals, including lock-free data structures, bloom filters, minimal perfect hashing, and consistent hashing, plus hands-on SQL/NoSQL database and distributed computing experience.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $134,600.00-$217,800.00, with potential restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed; this posting is tagged hybrid.
- Immigration sponsorship is indicated as eligible.
- Employee benefits information is available through the employer's benefits description.
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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.