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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.

we are looking for a seasoned and accomplished Software Engineer to join the Identity Security organization. Identity is the new perimeter, being the leading attack vector in modern breaches. You will be part of the Identities Team, a group of talented engineers dedicated to solving the complex problem of securing identities across hybrid and SaaS landscapes.
Key Responsibilities
Drive Strategic Vision: Contribute to and execute the long-term roadmap for our Identity solutions, ensuring our tech stack evolves alongside industry best practices and global business goals.
Lead Innovation: Research and develop cutting-edge technologies to solve the "Identity Perimeter" problem, turning complex security research into tangible product features.
Architect Scalable Solutions: Design and implement robust, secure architectures capable of managing identities across fragmented SaaS and on-premise ecosystems at enterprise scale.
Foster a Culture of Excellence: Engage in a high-caliber engineering environment through mentorship, collaborative code reviews, and a shared commitment to continuous technical growth.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Platform, and DevOps teams to bridge the gap between complex security requirements and seamless user experiences.
Own Your Career Path: Take on high-impact initiatives and leadership opportunities tailored to your experience level, with access to the resources needed to become a subject matter expert in Identity Security.

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.

Engineering - Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating - challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. 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.
Job Summary
In this role, you will be dedicated to safeguarding our clients data within the dynamic cloud landscape. As an expert in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for SaaS and DBaaS, you will develop cutting-edge solutions for data discovery, classification, and protection across platforms like Snowflake, Databricks and MongoDB Atlas. Your work will focus on proactively identifying and eliminating risks, ensuring our clients' sensitive information remains secure, compliant, and accessible only to authorized users, empowering them to grow their business securely.
Key Responsibilities
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 specific 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.
Challenge the status quo by generating innovative ideas and actively participating in brainstorming sessions to foster product and architectural improvements.
Actively 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.
Contribute to an agile and dynamic engineering culture, demonstrating a strong drive and outstanding communication skills to deliver results efficiently.

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.

We are looking for an experienced and highly capable Principal/Senior Software Engineer to join the Koi team. This role is focused on building and scaling a complex, high-impact product that operates across large-scale enterprise environments. As a Principal Engineer, you will take ownership of major parts of the system and work across the full stack, including backend services, data pipelines, frontend applications, and endpoint/agent code. You will play a key role in shaping the architecture of Koi as it grows, ensuring the system remains scalable, reliable, and easy to evolve.
Key Responsibilities
Design and build scalable, high-performance systems across the full Koi stack
Own architecture and technical direction for critical components
Work across backend, data, frontend, and agent code
Tackle complex challenges related to scale, reliability, and performance
Drive best practices in system design, testing, and observability
Collaborate closely with product, security, and customer-facing teams
Identify and resolve bottlenecks and architectural limitations
Mentor other engineers and raise the overall technical bar of the team.

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Principal Architect to join the XSIAM engineering group in a highly cross-functional, product-facing role. This position sits at the intersection of engineering, product management, customer success, and product architecture, helping shape scalable and innovative solutions across the XSIAM product.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong product thinking, enabling them to translate business and customer needs into clear architectural direction and execution strategies. This role requires close collaboration with engineering teams, product managers, and strategic customers to drive platform capabilities, integrations, scalability, and long-term architectural vision.
Key Responsibilities
Lead architectural design and technical strategy for XSIAM platform capabilities and integrations.
Define best practices, technical standards, and scalable design patterns across the organization.
Work closely with customers, field teams, and support organizations to understand real-world use cases and pain points.
Evaluate tradeoffs between scalability, performance, security, operational complexity, and delivery timelines.
Support strategic customer engagements and complex deployment scenarios.
Mentor engineers and technical leaders on architecture, system design, and product-oriented engineering thinking.
Act as the bridge between engineering, product, and site reliability (SRE) to ensure that architectural designs translate into operational excellence.

Required Staff Backend Engineer
Tel Aviv
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how companies understand their customer interactions. You will be instrumental in designing and leading the development of scalable systems, working with cutting-edge technologies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization to solve high-impact problems.
Youll Own:
Technical Strategy & Architecture: Driving the architectural vision for complex systems, ensuring they remain scalable, reliable, and maintainable as we grow.
Core Backend Infrastructure: Designing and implementing high-performance services and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and modern cloud technologies.
Technology Exploration: Researching and integrating emerging technologies, including AI/ML capabilities and advanced APIs, into our current stack.
Youll Solve:
System Scalability: Tackling the challenges of high-performance backend design.
Complex Cross-Functional Alignment: Bridging the gap between Product, GTM, and R&D groups to develop tailored solutions that satisfy both internal and external stakeholders.
Architectural Debt: Making critical decisions that prevent bottlenecks and ensure the long-term health of our distributed systems.
Youll Impact:
Team Technical Bar: Elevating the engineering organization through direct mentorship and by setting high-level standards for best practices.
Innovation Velocity: Leading the charge in adopting new methodologies and AI capabilities that keep our product at the cutting edge.
Strategic Growth: Directly influencing the company's ability to scale by building the foundational services that power our most complex product initiatives.
We operate in a flexible hybrid work model.

We are hiring for a Principal/ Senior Backend Engineer to join our fast-paced KSPM (Kubernetes Security Posture Management) team in Cortex Cloud, located in our TLV office. Cortex Cloud is our company' next-generation cloud security solution.
In this role, you'll be key in developing and scaling the core parts of our KSPM solution. Our team's goal is to help Cortex Cloud customers understand and fix security issues in their Kubernetes workloads across all major cloud providers.
The ideal candidates are software engineers with a "can-do" attitude and a passion for solving real customer problems. You should be a person who wishes and is able to work closely with the team and our partners across Cortex Cloud to make decisions and drive features end-to-end.
For us, caring about people is not a slogan; we are looking for individual contributors who enjoy and want to work with great people and collaborate on delivering business value across PANWs vast customer portfolio.
Your Impact
End-to-end backend development of features and core components across the software development life cycle (design, develop, test, deploy, maintain)
As a principal software engineer, independently drive and collaborate with others to deliver high impact features in the KSPM domain
Work with customers and provide solutions to their day-to-day work and challenges
Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions.