Senior Principal Software Engineer - Cortex

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 believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, we're not just building products - we're revolutionizing cybersecurity.  As a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Cortex Cloud, you'll lead Architecture and will enforce the high technical standards for CSPM components such as Cloud Account Onboarding, Cloud Asset Discovery, and Cloud Detection Engine.  You will play key role in helping us achieve our mission to become the #1 CNAPP solution to further strengthen our position as the most complete and advanced cybersecurity platform in the world.  If you're ready to lead the charge in revolutionizing cloud security, we want to hear from you.

Why Cortex?

• Market Leader - Join the fastest-growing cloud security platform, trusted by many customers worldwide

• Innovative Culture - Work alongside some of the brightest minds in cybersecurity, constantly pushing boundaries

• Massive Impact - Protect the world's most critical digital assets and shape the future of cloud security

• Rapid Growth - Be part of a team that's scaling at an unprecedented rate, with abundant opportunities for career advancement

Your Impact

• Lead full lifecycle development of backend features for Prisma Cloud (CSPM and Platform): from requirements gathering, architecture/design, implementation, testing, deployment, through to production support and maintenance

• Work closely with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product

• Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions

• Production oriented approach with providing real time mitigation and solutions to production issues

• As a Senior Individual Contributor you will lead by example and drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed

• Lead Architecture and enforce high technical standards across a growing team of engineers to build a highly functioning software development team

Your Experience 

• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 10+ years of software engineering experience, including development of a scalable server-side application

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in Java and Python (Go is a plus)

• Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g. understanding of lock-free data structures, bloom filters, minimal perfect hashing, consistent hashing etc)

• Proven Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP / AWS / Azure)

• Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, Serverless, etc)

• Experience with big–data architectures (using Kafka, Splunk, Flink, etc)

• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases 

• Experience working in an agile and dynamic environment

• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra

• Familiarity with Cyber Technologies, Information Security, and Software Security

• Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communication skills

The Team

Our Cortex Cloud engineering team is at the core of our products, directly connected to our mission of preventing cyberattacks by providing best-in-class cloud security.  We are constantly innovating and challenging the way the industry thinks about cybersecurity.  Specifically, the Posture Security team is responsible for developing and maintaining the critical backend infrastructure that enables our customers to identify, prioritize, and remediate security risks across their multi-cloud environments.  We’re looking for individuals who are comfortable with ambiguity, excited by a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks we work to solve.  You’ll be part of a team that is crucial in delivering comprehensive cloud security posture management, helping organizations secure their cloud workloads, data, and infrastructure.

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.