Palo Alto Principal Software Engineer Cortex Backend 

United States, California 

935893430

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

Your Impact

• 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

• Proactively review design, identify risks and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution

• Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery

Your Experience

• 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 Python and/or Go

• 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/PubSub and SingleStore)

• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases

• Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved

• Experience with the agile process and working with software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale

• 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

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Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $150,000-$216,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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