Senior Backend Engineer - Cortex Cloud @ Palo Alto Networks
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Company Description
At Palo Alto Networks, our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice and protect our digital way of life. We challenge and disrupt traditional approaches with innovative ideas, valuing integrity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Who We Are
We are a diverse team driven by a common purpose: to shape the future of cybersecurity. Our values are employee-crowdsourced and put into practice daily with a strong focus on disruptive innovation, collaboration, and execution. We support personal wellbeing with flexible benefits, mental and financial health resources, and tailored learning opportunities.
Your Career
As a Senior Backend Engineer - Cortex Cloud, you will work with a startup mentality while enjoying the backing of a successful corporation. You will design and build an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, ensuring data storage, processing, and accessibility. You will collaborate with industry-leading cyber products and work closely with DevOps, Pipeline, development, and automation teams.
Your Impact & Qualifications
- Be a key contributor to a high-scale production product.
- Develop scalable server side applications.
- Work with distributed cloud products and diverse database technologies such as MySQL, Cassandra, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and ElasticSearch.
- Experience with Go and Python is an advantage.
- Familiarity with GCP/AWS/Azure and Kubernetes/Docker is desirable.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent, with 4+ years of software engineering experience.
Team & Additional Information
The infrastructure team, part of the Cortex Platform group, is dedicated solely to backend excellence. You will work on shared components, monitor high-scale challenges, and elevate the developer experience across teams.
Key skills/competency
- cybersecurity
- cloud
- infrastructure
- distributed
- scalability
- Go
- Python
- databases
- DevOps
- backend
How to Get Hired at Palo Alto Networks
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Research Palo Alto Networks' culture: Understand their mission, values, and recent achievements.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight distributed systems and cloud experience.
- Showcase technical projects: Emphasize high-scale backend work.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Review system design and coding challenges.