Principal Backend Engineer (CORTEX - Autonomous SOC)
Palo Alto Networks21 days ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable infrastructure for processing, storing, and exposing billions of endpoint, network, and cloud events per second.
- 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-like team.
Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience with distributed cloud products and scalable server-side applications.
- Experience with MySQL, Cassandra, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and Elasticsearch.
- Experience with agentic tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, equivalent knowledge, or equivalent military experience.
- Experience with Go or Python is advantageous.
- Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker is advantageous.
- Knowledge of graph databases and the cybersecurity field is advantageous.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Palo Alto Networks provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- The company offers an equal opportunity work environment.
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.