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Are you passionate about harnessing cutting-edge data science techniques to protect the world from cyber threats? Do you thrive in the dynamic world of cybersecurity? If so, we invite you to join our innovative and forward-thinking team at Palo Alto Networks, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity and impact millions of customers.
As a Senior Principal Data Scientist, you will be a technical leader and hands-on architect, bridging the worlds of advanced data science, robust software engineering, and next-generation AI. You will bring a deep, diverse background in classical machine learning algorithms alongside cutting-edge LLM agent architectures to build resilient, production-grade defense techniques against cyber-villains. Operating as a premier technical authority, you will drive the vision, design, and large-scale development of our groundbreaking, Agentix LLM-based security solutions that block attacks even before they begin.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as a hands-on technical compass for a diverse, elite product-oriented research team, pioneering state-of-the-art technologies and setting the engineering standards for AI/ML excellence across the organization.
Design, implement, and optimize robust Agentic LLM solutions and multi-agent workflows engineered to autonomously counter modern, sophisticated cyber threats.
Oversee and actively contribute to the entire end-to-end lifecycle, moving seamlessly from ambiguous research concepts and POCs to high-throughput, low-latency production deployments.
Build and enforce comprehensive frameworks for continuous real-time monitoring, evaluation, and guardrails to track model drift, latency, and agent behavior in production environments.
Decompose highly complex, multi-layered algorithmic problems into actionable technical roadmaps and strategic insights for both deeply technical engineers and executive business stakeholders.

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.

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.

Our team is responsible for managing the primary entrance gates of customer data to the platform, integrating keen customer understanding with the latest engineering solutions to facilitate high-throughput, minimal-latency, and high-scale data ingestion. We are required to be dynamic and fast, consistently adapting and catching up with the latest technologies employed by our customers to ensure they keep getting the best security coverage for their operational environments and third-party services. We are seeking a Principal/Senior Software Engineer to join a dynamic group that operates with the independence and innovative spirit of a startup, yet benefits from the robust support of a thriving corporation. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing and building high-throughput infrastructure capable of supporting billions of events per second. Your work will involve processing and ensuring the accessibility and visibility of these events to users at peak scales, all while engaging with a diverse range of industry technologies and services.
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for the complete software development lifecycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support.
Drive ideas and initiatives, making innovation a reality, and lead your colleagues from ideation through implementation.

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.

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 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 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.

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. Thats why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when its needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
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.

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.