Staff Software Engineer (Cortex Cloud Platform)

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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Cortex backend engineering group.

The group develops and maintains the backend of Cortex products - Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR, and Cortex XSIAM. The great majority of the Cortex engineering group is located in the Santa Clara and Tel Aviv offices. You will join a team focused on developing, innovating, and scaling the Cortex Platform, along with contributing to shared Cortex infrastructures and components. We are looking for candidates with a can-do attitude, who are passionate about complex problems and thrive on bringing value to thousands of customers.

Your Impact

• As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and improving Cortex Cloud that powers the Code to Cloud to SOC security platform. You’ll contribute to meaningful projects alongside experienced engineers who are invested in your growth. Whether it's writing clean, maintainable code, fixing bugs, or participating in design discussions, your work will directly impact how our users experience the product. Your working day will include: 

• End-to-end backend development of features and components across their entire life cycle (design, develop, test, deploy, maintain)

• Collaboration with with peers across different teams (product management, UX design, and fellow engineering teams) and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product

• code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions

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

• Identify and triage bugs and production issues

You will have lots of opportunities to:

• Learn and grow through hands-on experience and mentorship.

• Bring fresh perspectives and ideas that help us improve how we build and deliver software.

• Help maintain a high standard of quality, performance, and reliability in everything we build.

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 2+ years of software engineering experience, including development of a scalable server-side application 

• Extensive hands-on programming skills in OOPS language like Java, Python and/or Go 

• Strong computer science fundamentals (e.g. understanding data structures and algorithms) 

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

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

• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases

• Familiarity or familiarity with big–data architectures (using Kafka, Splunk, Flink, etc)

• Familiarity with distributed computing (understand implications of CAP theorem, master