Palo Alto Networks' Cortex backend engineering group is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the core backend infrastructure for their Cortex Cloud Platform and its Cloud Security Posture features, aiming to enhance the security of customer cloud environments.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud-native application development, at large organizations or innovative startups
- Strong programming skills in one of Python, Go, or Java,
- Experience with distributed systems architecture and design
- Experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Pubsub, etc.
- Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved
- Experience with cloud development (REST APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications
- Experience with building and delivering services and workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
- Drive projects from requirements to design and implementation as project lead
- Align key stakeholders including product management, UX design, and fellow engineering stakeholders
- Proactively review design, identify risks and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution
- Regularly provide cross-team technical collaboration and consultation
- Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
Other
- Work across team boundaries
- Mentor engineers across the department
- Can-do attitude and ability to make trade-off judgements with data driven decision making
- High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communications skills
