Principal Backend Engineer - XSIAM (Cortex)

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Tel Aviv Yaffo
In-Office
Senior level
Cybersecurity
The cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
The Role
As a Principal Backend Engineer, you will design infrastructure for massive event processing, oversee the software development life cycle, and enhance cybersecurity solutions.
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Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex team and help us to prevent, detect and respond to all runs on an integrated endpoint, network and cloud data – reduce the noise and focus on real threats.

More information about the Cortex XDR product can be found here.

Your Impact

  • You will be a part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation - You will design and build an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industry’s leading cyber products
  •  You will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support - You will write clean, testable, readable, fast and maintainable code that is efficient and scalable
  • Drive the inception, strategy and execution of our autonomous investigation and response solution (Autopilot)

Qualifications

Your Experience 

  • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge or equivalent military experience required
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience - Must
  • Experience in distributed cloud products
  • Experienced with a variety of database technologies (Mysql / Cassandra / Google BigQuery Amazon Redshift / ElasticSearch)
  • Experience in designing, building and maintaining a scalable server-side application
  • Experience in Go / Python - an advantage
  • Experience with GCP - advantage
  • Knowledge of graph databases - advantage
  • Experience with Kubernetes/Docker - advantage
  • Knowledge of the cyber field - advantage

Additional Information

The Team

Join our dynamic team where innovation and collaboration thrive. Experience a workplace that fosters personal and professional growth, providing opportunities to take ownership of your career journey. Embrace the cutting edge of technology as we encourage professional work in software engineering, particularly in the cloud domain.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Top Skills

Amazon Redshift
Cassandra
Docker
Elasticsearch
GCP
Go
Google Bigquery
Kubernetes
MySQL
Python
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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
16,068 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

As the global AI and cybersecurity leader, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) is dedicated to protecting our digital way of life via continuous innovation. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, we provide comprehensive AI-powered security solutions across network, cloud, security operations and AI, enhanced by the expertise and threat intelligence of Unit 42. Our focus on platformization allows enterprises to streamline security at scale, ensuring protection fuels innovation.

Why Work With Us

We are relentless in protecting our customers and their customers from bad actors, threats, and slow downs. This shows up in our speed, thirst to solve problems, our values. We are united in this mission and the unique ideas it takes to keep up. This is why we embrace each individual who is part of our team determined to make a difference.

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