Palo Alto Sr Staff Backend Engineer - ShiftLeft Cortex Cloud 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

820407475

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

Your Career

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll have a high-impact role in shaping the future of our code security products. Beyond building robust and scalable backend features, you'll help drive performance, reliability, and innovation across our systems. Our team leads the way in owning both the department’s core infrastructure and Developer Experience (DevEx), empowering the entire engineering organization with powerful internal platforms and tooling. If you're excited by technical challenges, meaningful ownership, and making life easier for developers — this is the place for you.

Your Impact

• Feature Development: Design, build, and maintain robust backend services using TypeScript/Node.js. Take full ownership of complex, cross-system features — from initial requirements through architecture, implementation, and deployment.

• Build and Optimize Scalable Systems: Ensure performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency across distributed systems through thoughtful design, deep observability, and continuous optimization.

• Platform Engineering & DevEx: Drive platform engineering initiatives by developing the department infrastructure and shared tooling that boost scalability, reliability, and the developer experience across the department.

• Own Core Infrastructure: Design, operate, and evolve the department’s infrastructure stack — including BigQuery, MongoDB, Redis, and Argo Workflows — using cloud-native technologies like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm.

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong foundation in designing and maintaining scalable systems.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js in production environments.

• Proven experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP (or equivalent like AWS/Azure).

• Familiarity with Kubernetes

• Familiarity with operating live production systems at scale, with a focus on reliability and performance.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent military experience.

Advantage

• Experience developing security-related products, especially in the code analysis or AppSec domain.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Hands-on experience with Argo Workflows or similar orchestration platforms.

• Security knowledge

• Orchestrated and managed containerized applications using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and self-healing of microservices

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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