Principal/ Senior Backend Engineer- Agentless (Cortex Cloud)
About the role
Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are 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. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary Your Career As a Principal Development Engineer in our group, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and building the backbone of our cutting-edge system, which is responsible for agentless workload protection. Your expertise will be essential in establishing a solid foundation using microservices, cloud-native technologies, and other innovative solutions. You will work on various cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, allowing scan and deploy of infrastructure to identify cyber threats, create a scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure, implement and optimize various cloud services and platforms and drive the adoption of innovative technologies and industry best practices within the group. Your Impact Feature development! You will own (design, implement, and test) important feature areas in the Cortex Cloud product Always on the GO! Develop using Golang You are a First-String Starter! You will work in close coordination with the PM and QA teams Who knew? You do! Research new technologies and see how they can be adapted to the product