Palo Alto Networks · 3 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Platform)
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $230K/yr
8+ years expPalo Alto Networks is a leading cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting digital lives. They are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to join their Cortex backend engineering group, focusing on developing and maintaining backend features for Cortex products while collaborating with various teams to innovate and scale the platform.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity
Responsibilities
End-to-end backend development of features and components across their entire life cycle (design, develop, test, deploy, maintain)
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
Qualification
Required
M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of software engineering experience, including development of a scalable server-side application
Extensive hands-on programming skills in Go and/or Python
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)
Experience with distributed computing (understand implications of CAP theorem, master election, brain split problem) and/or distributed DB/KVP (BigQuery, Elastic Search, Kafka and SingleStore)
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
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Palo Alto Networks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (484)
2024 (482)
2023 (341)
2022 (452)
2021 (493)
2020 (235)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M
Leadership Team
Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
Recent News
SEC Filings
2025-12-31
2025-12-30
2025-12-30
Company data provided by crunchbase