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As a Senior or Principal Software Engineer in Cortex Cloud, you will contribute to the development and scaling of cloud-native security solutions for enterprise organizations. This role involves working within an established team to evolve a high-traffic product, with a focus on refining architecture, optimizing the technology stack, and maintaining engineering standards.
Your responsibilities include writing reliable code, influencing product direction, and designing distributed systems. You will be expected to make technical decisions that impact the long-term stability and performance of cloud workload protection services.
AI Integration & Engineering Workflow
A core component of our development process is the use of AI. Rather than basic code completion, we integrate AI assistants as functional components of our workflow. Our team utilizes a multi-agent AI system (IDEX/ProDex) that assists across the development lifecycle: from planning and architecture to code analysis and security reviews.
In this role, you will:
Work with AI Tools: Utilize platforms such as Gemini, Claude, and Cursor for tasks beyond code generation, including root-cause analysis, system design reviews, and architectural assessment.
Develop AI-Augmented Workflows: Help refine how AI is integrated into the SDLC, including the orchestration of agents and the development of internal tools that extend AI capabilities across our codebase.
Maintain Quality Standards: While AI assists in increasing velocity, you are responsible for the technical output. This includes critical review of all generated code and ensuring that AI-assisted work aligns with our architectural requirements and security benchmarks.
Interact with Specialized Agents: Coordinate with AI agents (Product, Architecture, Security) that operate on shared context to assist in managing complex engineering tasks.
We are looking for engineers who are interested in leveraging AI as a technical tool to manage complexity and who want to contribute to the practical application of human-AI collaboration in a cloud environment.

As a Principal Backend Engineer on the Access Team, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, building, and scaling the critical backend services that manage identity and access for the entire Cortex Platform. You will drive architectural decisions and ensure the security, reliability, and performance of our core access control systems.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, secure, and resilient backend services for identity and access management.
Set the technical direction for the team, making key architectural decisions and promoting engineering best practices.
Write and review high-quality, production-ready code for critical platform services.
Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with product managers, security experts, and other engineering teams to translate complex requirements into robust technical solutions.
Drive the operational excellence of our services, including monitoring, alerting, and participating in an on-call rotation.
Investigate and integrate AI and ML models to enhance threat detection and intelligent access control within the platform.

Were looking for Principal Cloud Security Researcher with a strong security background to join our innovative Research team.
The Role
We're looking for a Principal Cloud Security Researcher to serve as a senior technical leader within our Research team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role -- you won't manage people, but you'll shape the direction of our entire research function, mentor researchers, and act as a force multiplier across the organization.
You'll be the person who takes a vague threat signal and turns it into a detection strategy, a published finding, or a product capability. You'll operate as a trusted deputy to the research team lead, owning the most complex and ambiguous research challenges while raising the technical bar for the team.
What You'll Do
Drive Groundbreaking Research
Own and drive our most critical research initiatives end-to-end - from initial threat hypothesis through detection logic, product integration, and external publication.
Set the technical direction for cloud threat research across AWS, Azure, and GCP, identifying emerging attack surfaces and novel techniques before they become mainstream threats.
Investigate real-world cloud and SaaS security incidents, dissecting attacker tradecraft and extracting insights that evolve our detection capabilities.
Pioneer new forensic investigation techniques and detection methodologies for cloud-native and SaaS environments - pushing the state of the art, not just following it.
Be a Voice in the Community
Represent our company as a thought leader through high-quality research publications, conference presentations (BlackHat, DEF CON, RSA, fwd:cloudsec, and similar venues), and open-source contributions.
Build and maintain our reputation as a research-driven company that advances the field - not just a vendor with a blog.
Engage with the broader security research community, fostering relationships and collaborative knowledge-sharing.
Shape the Product
Bridge research and product - translate threat findings into actionable product requirements, working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure our CDR platform stays ahead of evolving threats.
Design and develop advanced detection algorithms that directly feed into our platform, closing the gap between research insight and customer protection.
Elevate the Team
Act as the team's go-to technical authority. When researchers hit a wall on complex cloud attack chains, IAM edge cases, or detection gaps - you're who they turn to.
Mentor and grow other researchers through research reviews, pair investigations, code reviews, and by setting quality standards and methodology best practices.
Influence technical decisions org-wide - contributing to architecture, tooling, and strategic research priorities.
Step in as the research team lead's deputy when needed - driving prioritization, representing research cross-functionally, and ensuring continuity.

As a Senior/ Principal/ Senior Principal Software Engineer at Cortex Cloud, you will serve as a primary technical architect and visionary for our core communication infrastructure. This role is focused on the critical server-side backbone that facilitates high-scale bidirectional communication between our cloud services and client-side applications.
You will be responsible for the architectural integrity of systems that receive massive data inflows from the field and reliably broadcast intelligence back to millions of endpoints. This is a high-impact leadership role requiring a blend of deep technical mastery in distributed systems and the ability to influence technical strategy across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Architectural Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for our server-side communication infrastructure, ensuring the platform remains resilient and performant under extreme load.
High-Scale Communication Infrastructure: Lead the design and implementation of backend systems optimized for receiving high-scale data from client-side apps and distributing data back to a vast ecosystem of endpoints.
Technical Leadership & Influence: Act as a force multiplier by providing technical guidance to multiple engineering teams, aligning them on shared protocols, architectural standards, and communication patterns.
Drive Engineering Excellence: Champion a culture of high engineering rigor, focusing on deep observability, low-latency data distribution, and runtime stability for mission-critical production environments.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Infrastructure, and Client-Side Engineering teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, mitigate risks, and ensure seamless end-to-end data flow.
Innovation & Prototyping: Spearhead the evaluation of emerging technologies and lead "proof of concept" initiatives for next-generation transport layers and messaging paradigms.
Technical Mentorship: Invest in the growth of Senior and Staff engineers through deep-dive design reviews, code audits, and hands-on pair programming on the most critical paths.
Strategic Customer Engagement: Support the business by leading technical deep dives with strategic customers, translating complex architectural concepts into actionable confidence for our partners.

In this role, you will act as the primary architect of the "nervous system" that bridges the gap between sophisticated AI models and real-world business logic. You will design and maintain the critical infrastructure that enables intelligent, autonomous features to function reliably at scale, moving beyond simple API wrappers to build deeply integrated AI systems. You will take ownership of the entire data flow, where you will develop high-performance RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines and complex agentic workflows that provide users with accurate, context-aware responses.
Your Impact
Champion system stability by implementing rigorous evaluation and monitoring frameworks, ensuring that as our AI capabilities grow, our production environment remains fast, cost-effective, and secure.
Ultimately, you will be the technical force that transforms cutting-edge AI research into stable, scalable products that define the future of our platform.

we are seeking a Senior or Principal Backend Engineer (we are open to hire both levels) for our Cortex engineering group, focusing on Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XSIAM, and new Cortex AI solutions. In this role, you will design and implement robust backend services for our leading-edge security orchestration, automation, and response platform. You will also contribute to creating innovative AI-based solutions, enhancing shared Cortex infrastructures. This is an exceptional opportunity for those eager to advance Cortex products with AI-driven capabilities and make a significant impact in the cybersecurity industry.
Your Impact:
Own the end-to-end backend development of features and components, from design and development to testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Proactively collaborate and exchange information with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and ensure alignment on product integrations.
Contribute to team-wide efforts including code reviews, design reviews, and architectural decisions, ensuring high-quality and maintainable code.
Apply a production-oriented approach, providing real-time mitigation and effective solutions to production issues to ensure platform stability and reliability.
Challenge curiously and positively by exploring new technologies and methodologies to enhance our backend services and AI capabilities.

we are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer for our Cortex engineering group, focusing on Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XSIAM, and new Cortex AI solutions. In this role, you will design and implement robust backend services for our leading-edge security orchestration, automation, and response platform. You will also contribute to creating innovative AI-based solutions, enhancing shared Cortex infrastructures. This is an exceptional opportunity for those eager to advance Cortex products with AI-driven capabilities and make a significant impact in the cybersecurity industry.
Key Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end backend development of features and components, from design and development to testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Proactively collaborate and exchange information with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and ensure alignment on product integrations.
Contribute to team-wide efforts including code reviews, design reviews, and architectural decisions, ensuring high-quality and maintainable code.
Apply a production-oriented approach, providing real-time mitigation and effective solutions to production issues to ensure platform stability and reliability.
Challenge curiously and positively by exploring new technologies and methodologies to enhance our backend services and AI capabilities.

Join the Cortex team as a Principal Backend Engineer and own the backend strategy for our integrated detection and response engine. You will be responsible for transforming raw endpoint, network, and cloud data into actionable intelligence, using AI-driven techniques to dramatically reduce false positives and focus our defense on what truly matters: stopping the worlds most critical threats.
Key Responsibilities
Operate with the agility and autonomy of a high-growth startup, backed by the massive scale and resources of a global leader.
Architect and scale a world-class data infrastructure capable of processing billions of events per second in real-time.
Integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies to transform raw telemetry from the industry's leading cyber products into high-fidelity, actionable intelligence.
Own the end-to-end software development life cycle, from conceptualizing complex distributed systems to deploying high-performance code.
Build AI-augmented systems that are fast, maintainable, and resilient enough to outpace the world's most sophisticated cyber threats.

Cortex is expanding. We combine the high energy of a startup with the massive resources of the worlds cybersecurity leader. We aren't just processing data; we are managing hundreds of petabytes of it, waiting Cortex for you to apply your "magic" to invent the next generation of threat detection. As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will be a cornerstone of the Cortex Detection Backend team. This role is designed for a technical powerhouse who thrives in the "sweet spot" between high-level architectural strategy and hands-on execution. You will influence our product roadmap, mentor elite engineers, and build systems that protect thousands of the world's most sensitive organizations.
Key Responsibilities
Architect & Innovate: Design and build a new set of capabilities focused on Data Analytics and Threat Detection. You will solve cloud security challenges that have never been tackled before.
Scale Without Limits: Ensure our microservices architecture remains robust and resilient under massive loads, processing millions of events per second.
Technical Leadership: Act as a technical sounding board and mentor. You will guide design discussions, conduct deep-dive research, and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
Strategic Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management, R&D leaders, and Security Researchers to define requirements and turn ambiguous problems into elegant technical solutions.
Drive Execution: Take ownership of the software development life cycle, ensuring high-velocity delivery in a fast-paced Agile environment.

As a Senior or Sr Principal Software Engineer in Cortex Cloud, you will contribute to the development and scaling of cloud-native security solutions for enterprise organizations. This role involves working within an established team to evolve a high-traffic product, with a focus on refining architecture, optimizing the technology stack, and maintaining engineering standards.
Your responsibilities include writing reliable code, influencing product direction, and designing distributed systems. You will be expected to make technical decisions that impact the long-term stability and performance of cloud workload protection services.