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Palo Alto Networks is 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.

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a visionary Sr. Principal Backend Engineer to shape the future of our Cortex platforms. In this highly impactful role, you will act as a technical pioneer and an architectural challenger for our leading-edge security orchestration, automation, and response platform.
Bringing an entrepreneurial mindset and a deep understanding of the competitive business landscape, you will critically evaluate our core systems, champion system quality, and drive rapid prototyping (POCs) for innovative AI-based solutions. This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned technologist-perhaps a former founder-who wants to keep their hands in the code while shaping our strategic direction and pushing the boundaries of AI-driven cybersecurity.
Your Impact:
Challenge the Architecture: Bring a fresh, external perspective to critically evaluate our core systems and drive uncompromising standards for quality and resilience.
Prototype & Innovate (POCs): Keep your hands in the code by rapidly prototyping GenAI integrations and evaluating new models before they are scaled by the broader team.
Think Like a Founder: Deeply understand our business, competitive landscape, and market trends to ensure technical decisions drive real business value.
Industry Presence: Stay ahead of the curve by actively engaging with the broader tech community, tracking trends, and attending industry conferences.
Lead & Elevate: Guide cross-functional teams, lead high-level design reviews, and elevate our engineering culture through technical mentorship.

we are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Software Engineering Team Lead for our Cortex XSIAM group. You will manage a high-performing team of 3 senior and principal engineers to build a complex, long-term AI agent project. This role requires a highly adaptable "orchestrator" - someone who can seamlessly drive cross-platform architecture, collaborate with multiple Product Managers and infrastructure teams, and remain deeply hands-on with the codebase.
Your Impact:
Lead & Code: Manage a senior team while remaining heavily involved in writing, reviewing, and optimizing complex backend code.
Architectural Leadership: Drive high-level design and cross-platform architecture across multiple repositories and products.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a central focal point, aligning with various PMs and infrastructure teams to shape and deliver AI-driven solutions.
End-to-End Ownership: Own the full development lifecycle, from system design to production stability and real-time issue mitigation.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cortex Platform Application team, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and operating critical backend platform services and customer facing features used across Cortex. This role is for an engineer who can combine deep platform/backend expertise with strong ownership, practical execution, and cross-team influence. You will help build scalable and reliable services, guide technical decisions, improve engineering methods, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of how the team designs, ships, documents, tests, and operates its systems. The team owns a broad set of platform capabilities, including areas such as application configuration, dashboards and reporting infrastructure, metrics, multi-tenant and MSSP infrastructure, log forwarding, notifications, auditing, access and permission engines, filtering and querying infrastructure, and other shared application platform domains. We develop customer facing features, as well as internal capabilities serving other development teams within cortex. We are looking for someone who is not only strong technically, but also enjoys being a part of a high-performing team, taking ownership from within, and helping turn strong execution into repeatable engineering practice. A successful candidate will quickly become a trusted part of the team by shipping meaningful work, learning the team's domains, and helping others move faster. Over time, this person will help the team increase delivery capacity while also improving how work is designed, documented, tested, operated, and shared across the organization. The right person will not act as an external advisor or abstract architect. They will join the team's day-to-day work, earn trust through execution, and help create organized technical influence from inside the team.
Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure backend services for the Cortex Platform.
Act as a hands-on technical leader, writing and reviewing production code for critical platform services.
Lead technical design for complex backend and platform domains, balancing long-term architecture with practical delivery.
Own and improve core platform capabilities used by internal engineering teams and Cortex customers.
Drive operational excellence, including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, reliability, and participation in on-call.
Improve engineering methods around documentation, testing, design reviews, ownership models, and production readiness.
Mentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers through design guidance, code reviews, production work, and day-to-day collaboration.
Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, security experts, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
Help internal customers use platform capabilities correctly by creating clarity, alignment, and practical technical guidance.
Identify gaps in systems, processes, and ownership, and lead improvements without adding unnecessary process or friction.
Contribute to a calm, practical, low-ego engineering culture focused on ownership, execution, and continuous improvement.

We are looking for a motivated Principal Platform Engineer to join our Cortex Devops Platform group in our Tel Aviv offices. The team is responsible for the orchestration platform that manages the entire lifecycle of the production environment hosting all Cortex products, as well as the enablement of the entire RnD group using self service APIs and internal tooling.
More information about Cortex can be found here(opens in new window)(opens in new window).
Your Impact
Develop the orchestration platform that manages the entire lifecycle of the production environment hosting all Cortex products deployed on GCP
Develop Kubernetes operators and cloud-native applications to streamline our infrastructure management and deployment processes.
Collaborate with engineering teams to design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost and performance.
Stay abreast of cutting-edge technologies and deploy them to production environments when appropriate.
Contribute to team-wide efforts including code reviews, design reviews, and technical/architectural decisions.
Participate in the on-call rotation to provide support for applications and infrastructure.

Join our Security Autonomous SOC Team as a Principal AI Engineer to transform innovative AI/LLM research into impactful cybersecurity product features. You will leverage and augment our existing infrastructure, including BI systems and CI/CD pipelines, to design, develop, and deploy advanced LLM and Agentic capabilities. Your expertise in software development, AI engineering, and modern LLM technologies will directly drive the evolution of our security operations. By building robust, production-ready AI solutions, you will make a tangible difference in protecting our digital world against complex threats.
Key Responsibilities
Design and build Agentic security solutions to improve detection, response, and remediation capabilities.
Architect, implement, and optimize end-to-end LLM pipelines ensuring scalability from data ingestion to deployment.
Develop and deploy AI agents leveraging LLMs to automate complex security decision-making tasks.
Integrate LLM APIs and fine-tune models for specific cybersecurity use cases.
Transform promising AI and LLM research concepts into mature, robust, and scalable production-ready features.
Augment established BI data systems and CI/CD pipelines to support advanced AI development and experimentation.
Develop specialized tools and frameworks extending infrastructure to support AI-driven security research and remediation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI innovations into customer-facing XDR, EDR, and SOAR platforms.

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.
In this role, you will be dedicated to safeguarding our clients data within the dynamic cloud landscape. 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.

We are looking for a Senior Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex team and help us to prevent, detect and respond to all runs on an integrated endpoint, network and cloud data - reduce the noise and focus on real threats.
More information about the Cortex XDR product can be found here.(opens in new window)(opens in new window)
Your Impact
You will be a part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation - You will design and build an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industrys leading cyber products
You will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support - You will write clean, testable, readable, fast and maintainable code that is efficient and scalable
Drive the inception, strategy and execution of our autonomous investigation and response solution (Autonomous SOC).

We're building a new orchestration platform for AI datacenters-software that turns a complex, multi-vendor stack of compute, networking, and accelerators into something customers can deploy, operate, and optimize with confidence.
You'll join a small, growing engineering team where every engineer ships. In this hands-on development role, you'll build backend services, contribute to system design, and own features from implementation through production, working closely with experienced engineers.
If you enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, building new products, and seeing your work run at scale in real AI datacenters, this role is for you.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain core services and features for an orchestration platform spanning compute, networking, and accelerators.
- Translate customer requirements into APIs, workflows, and data models in collaboration with the team.
- Deliver features end-to-end, from prototyping and implementation to testing, deployment, and production support.
- Write reliable, maintainable code and contribute to shared libraries, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to design discussions and make practical implementation tradeoffs around performance, reliability, and simplicity.
- Participate in code reviews, share knowledge, and help improve engineering practices.
- Troubleshoot issues and improve service performance, observability, and operational readiness.

In this role, you will be dedicated to safeguarding our clients data within the dynamic SaaS landscape. Joining our core Data Protection engineering group, you will drive innovation in SaaS Data Security, building the next generation of an enterprise SaaS data protection platform.
In the SaaS Data Security domain, you will develop comprehensive data discovery, classification, and protection solutions natively integrated with leading business applications (such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, and Salesforce). You will tackle complex performance and scale challenges, architecting high-throughput, multi-tenant systems capable of continuously scanning, processing, and accurately classifying high-volume unstructured data across diverse SaaS ecosystems.
You will solve complex architectural challenges-translating conflicting data models and normalizing complex, vendor-specific APIs-to build a single, cohesive security control plane. Your work will enable deep visibility, real-time activity monitoring, and automated remediation to eliminate security blind spots, configuration drift, and unauthorized data exposure across the entire SaaS footprint.
Ultimately, 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 scale their operations safely.
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.