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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.

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.

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.

The Data & AI Security group sits at the heart of Cortex Cloud's mission of securing the worlds data. We build infrastructure and distributed systems that analyze billions of data points per second and protect customer environments at unprecedented scale. You will join a team that thrives in ambiguity, embraces innovation, and executes relentlessly.
We are looking for a technically-oriented Engineering manager to lead the AISPM team in the Data & AI security group, one of the most technically complex and cross-functional areas within Cortex Cloud. This is ideal for someone who is passionate about people leadership but doesnt want to walk away from the code entirely. You will balance roughly leadership/management with hands-on technical contribution, ensuring our microservices architecture remains robust and scalable.
Your Impact
Drive Execution & Delivery: Take full ownership of your team's software development life cycle. You will manage sprint planning, ensure high-velocity execution, and deliver critical features on time in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Lead & Empower: Directly manage, mentor, and grow a team of talented backend engineers. You will conduct 1-on-1s, guide career development, and foster a culture of continuous learning and high performance.
Shape the Architecture: Act as a technical sounding board for your team. You will guide technical design discussions, review architectures, and ensure our systems remain scalable, secure, and resilient under massive loads.
Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Product Managers, DevOps, UX designers, and Security Researchers to align engineering efforts with our strategic roadmap and customer needs.

As a 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, analyzing, detecting threats and making them accessible, visible and actionable for users while seamlessly integrating with the industrys 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.
Key Responsibilities
Take ownership of a brand new product, driving its development from concept and design to full implementation
Focus on meaningful, high impact work, building major parts of a groundbreaking new product
Build a new offering designed to operate at massive scale
Dive into new cutting-edge technologies, researching and integrating them to enhance the products capabilities.

As the Software Engineering Director, you will lead backend engineering teams and groups dedicated to building and maintaining our industry-leading cybersecurity. You will define and drive the vision and strategy for software development, ensuring the highest delivery standards of quality, security, and scalability. In close collaboration with product management, platform teams, you will guide the delivery of innovative, reliable solutions that address the evolving needs of our customers and safeguarding our clients data within the dynamic cloud landscape.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and mentor BE engineering teams and managers, driving recruitment, retention, and talent development. Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation
Oversee the design and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions, ensuring best practices in security throughout the development lifecycle
Work closely with product, design, and platform teams to align engineering with business goals and customer needs
Drive innovation by designing and implementing impactful solutions that address client needs, contributing to the full feature development lifecycle from design to deployment
Take ownership of wide feature segments, ensuring high-quality code and robust functionality through meticulous attention to detail and a focus on execution
Proactively collaborate and exchange information with cross-functional teams, including product and infrastructure, to ensure seamless integration and alignment on shared objectives
Engage in technical discussions, openly sharing knowledge and learning from others to solve complex problems and elevate team expertise
Design and build highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based applications and microservices.

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.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Cortex Platform team, you will be part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, backed by the power of a successful corporation. You will be instrumental in designing and building a massive-scale infrastructure that supports billions of events per second. Your work will involve storing, processing, and visualizing data to collaborate with the industry's leading cyber products and deliver unparalleled security insights.
Key Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from requirement analysis and design through to development, deployment, and ongoing support.
Architect, design, and develop highly scalable, distributed backend services capable of processing billions of events per second.
Proactively collaborate and exchange information with cross-functional teams, including product management and other engineering groups, to ensure alignment on goals and deliverables.
Drive technical innovation by proposing and implementing new ideas and initiatives, transforming concepts into tangible product features.
Ensure high standards of code quality, performance, and reliability through rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and proactive system monitoring.
Mentor and empower other engineers on the team, sharing knowledge of best practices in software design and cloud technologies.

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 asGemini, Claude, and Cursorfor 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.

The Falcon Cloud Security team is looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager / Team Lead to lead the development of Agentic Workflows - a transformative initiative aimed at automating complex security operations using AI-native agents. You will lead a team of talented engineers while remaining deeply technical, helping architect and build autonomous systems that don't just alert but actively reason, investigate, and remediate security risks across multi-cloud environments.
As a player-coach, you will help shape the "brain" of our cloud security platform, guiding both the people and the technology that leverages large-scale data and AI-driven logic to help customers discover misconfigurations, prioritize risks, and automate defensive actions at scale.

What You'll Do:

Lead & Grow a Team: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers, fostering a high-trust, high-performance culture. Conduct regular 1:1s, support career growth, and drive hiring to scale the team.

Stay Hands-On: Remain an active technical contributor - designing, reviewing, and writing production-quality code alongside your team. Lead by example and maintain a strong engineering presence.

Design & Architect: Drive backend engineering efforts to build autonomous agentic frameworks, guiding the team from rapid prototypes to large-scale production applications.

Develop Core Logic: Contribute to and oversee the development of decision-making engines and workflows that allow security agents to interact with cloud APIs (AWS, Azure, GCP) and internal data streams.

Data Integration: Guide the development of high-performance data integrations and streaming services (Kafka) to feed real-time security data into agentic models for continuous reasoning.

Scale Systems: Architect and oversee distributed systems capable of processing billions of security events to provide actionable posture intelligence and automated remediation.

Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, and peer engineering teams in a "startup-like" environment to define and deliver new platform capabilities with speed and quality.

Raise the Bar: Champion engineering excellence, new technologies, and best practices across the team and broader engineering organization.