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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.

Your Career:
Palo Alto Networks is 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 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.

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.

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.

The Cortex Content team powers Palo Alto Networks security operations platforms by building the essential integrations, data connectors, and intelligence layers that protect our customers.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is a true AI and automation builder to help scale our content ecosystem. In this role, your focus will be to bring your expertise in leverage AI to accelerate the delivery, quality, and quantity of our security integrations and content infrastructure. You will design and develop intelligent tools and workflows that enable engineering peers and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to scale their output solutions into our development lifecycle.
Your Impact:
Scale Content Delivery: Design and implement AI-driven systems that empower the team to significantly increase both the quantity and the rigorous quality of our security integrations.
Develop Cross-Functional Tooling: Build internal developer tools and agentic workflows that enable other engineers and TPMs to streamline content creation, validation, and management.
Optimize Workflows: Create reliable CI/CD pipelines incorporating AI agents to automate code generation and testing processes.
Support Team Adoption: Collaborate with engineering peers and cross-functional partners as they test and integrate your tools into their daily workflows, using their feedback to drive continuous improvements.
Contribute to AI Integration: Help lead the practical integration of LLMs and automation frameworks into our day-to-day engineering processes.

A fast growing tech company in the automotive space with hubs across the US and Israel. We are disrupting the multi-trillion dollar transportation industry with our advanced Customer data Platform (CDP). Our work happens in the fast lane as we bring AI-powered, data -driven solutions to a quickly evolving industry. Our team is made up of curious and creative individuals who are always looking to achieve the impossible. We are bold, collaborative, and goal driven, and, at our core, we believe every voice has value and can impact our bottom line. If you are a creative, solutions oriented individual who is ready to put your career in drive, we are the place for you! We are looking for Senior Engineers who treat AI as a core part of their workflow - people who experiment, iterate, and know how to get real value out of AI tools. Flexibility, curiosity, and a problem-solving mindset are must-haves. In this role you will have the opportunity to take ownership of the development of groundbreaking, AI-driven products and work on interesting projects inside a smart, fun, and dynamic engineering team. This position is based out of our Jerusalem or Tel-Aviv offices and reports to the Dev team lead.

What you will be responsible for:
Write clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code. Ensure that the projects you work on meet business objectives and coding standards. Support the deployment and testing of new products and features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical specifications. Design and implement APIs and integrations with third-party services to enhance system functionality. Optimize application performance through code profiling, monitoring, and refactoring as necessary. Implement automated testing frameworks to ensure code robustness and reliability. Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers to foster continuous improvement. Stay updated with emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends to drive innovation within the team. Assist in the establishment and enforcement of development standards and coding conventions.

Why you should join us:
An awesome global team of forward-thinking, innovative go-getters Integrate with tech titans: Work directly with APIs from Google, facebook, Microsoft, and more. Be part of a rapidly scaling company poised for the future. Learning and growth opportunities within a fast-paced SaaS startup environment Clear career advancement path for strong performers As a part of our team, your success in this role is crucial to our company's growth. We are committed to supporting you in achieving your KPIs and goals and providing regular feedback to help you reach your full potential. Together, we can make a real impact and achieve great things! And how can we forget? Cibus and lots of yummy kitchen treats:-)

A fast growing tech company in the automotive space with hubs across the US and Israel. We are disrupting the multi-trillion dollar transportation industry with our advanced Customer data Platform (CDP). Our work happens in the fast lane as we bring AI-powered, data -driven solutions to a quickly evolving industry. Our team is made up of curious and creative individuals who are always looking to achieve the impossible. We are bold, collaborative, and goal driven, and, at our core, we believe every voice has value and can impact our bottom line. If you are a creative, solutions oriented individual who is ready to put your career in drive, we are the place for you! We are looking for Senior Engineers who treat AI as a core part of their workflow - people who experiment, iterate, and know how to get real value out of AI tools. Flexibility, curiosity, and a problem-solving mindset are must-haves. In this role you will have the opportunity to take ownership of the development of groundbreaking, AI-driven products and work on interesting projects inside a smart, fun, and dynamic engineering team. This position is based out of our Jerusalem or Tel-Aviv offices and reports to the Dev team lead.

What you will be responsible for:
Write clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code. Ensure that the projects you work on meet business objectives and coding standards. Support the deployment and testing of new products and features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical specifications. Design and implement APIs and integrations with third-party services to enhance system functionality. Optimize application performance through code profiling, monitoring, and refactoring as necessary. Implement automated testing frameworks to ensure code robustness and reliability. Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers to foster continuous improvement. Stay updated with emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends to drive innovation within the team. Assist in the establishment and enforcement of development standards and coding conventions.

Why you should join us:
An awesome global team of forward-thinking, innovative go-getters Integrate with tech titans: Work directly with APIs from Google, facebook, Microsoft, and more. Be part of a rapidly scaling company poised for the future. Learning and growth opportunities within a fast-paced SaaS startup environment Clear career advancement path for strong performers As a part of our team, your success in this role is crucial to our company's growth. We are committed to supporting you in achieving your KPIs and goals and providing regular feedback to help you reach your full potential. Together, we can make a real impact and achieve great things! And how can we forget? Cibus and lots of yummy kitchen treats:-)

What You'll Actually Be Doing
Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform.
Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.
Work in a Hybrid Engineering model and contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.
Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud environment.
Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level).