Palo Alto Principal Backend Engineer Email Security Cortex Cloud 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

442630494

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Principal Software engineer on our Email Security team, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering a cutting-edge email security solution within the Cortex platform. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing an infrastructure capable of supporting billions of events per second, collecting, storing, processing, and making them accessible, visible and actionable for users while seamlessly integrating with the industry’s leading cyber-security products. You will design and build a highly available, reliable, and secure solution that adheres to the highest standards. Beyond development, your crucial role involves meaningful cross-organizational collaboration, driving a significant impact to ensure the success of our product. Our Cortex engineering group, primarily based in the TLV office, allows us to operate at a high pace with short decision-making loops. In this role, you will need to demonstrate creativity, innovation and deep knowledge in backend engineering, conducting research to find new technologies. A can-do approach, a passion for excellence and a commitment to continuous improvement are essential qualities for success in this position.

Your Impact

• Huge! You shape the future! Take ownership of a brand new product, driving its development from concept and design to full implementation
• Make a difference! Focus on meaningful, high impact work - No tiny tasks or endless bug fixes here! You will be building major parts of a groundbreaking new product
• Conquer Scale challenges! Building a new offering designed to operate at massive scale
• Lead Innovation! Dive into new cutting-edge technologies, researching and integrating them to enhance the product’s capabilities

Your Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in a production Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment
• Experience with high-scale distributed systems
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software and Computer Engineering, or equivalent military experience required
• Proficiency in at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Development experience with Python, Golang
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker, independent, and a strong team player
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

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

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