Senior Backend Engineer Email Security

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Senior Software Engineer and play a key role in developing a cutting-edge email security solution within the Cortex platform. You will design and develop an infrastructure capable of supporting billions of events per second, ensuring high availability, reliability, and security. This role involves collaborating cross-functionally and driving significant impact on product success. You will need creativity, innovation, and deep backend engineering knowledge, researching new technologies. A can-do attitude, passion for excellence, and commitment to continuous improvement are essential. You will take ownership of a new product, focusing on high-impact work and conquering scale challenges while leading innovation with cutting-edge technologies.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in a production Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment
• Experience with high-scale distributed systems
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software and Computer Engineering, or equivalent military experience
• Proficiency in at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Development experience with Python, Golang
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker, independent, and a strong team player
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

• Design and develop an infrastructure capable of supporting billions of events per second
• Collect, store, process, and make data accessible, visible, and actionable for users
• Seamlessly integrate with industry-leading cybersecurity products
• Design and build a highly available, reliable, and secure solution that adheres to the highest standards
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure product success
• Demonstrate creativity, innovation, and deep knowledge in backend engineering
• Conduct research to find new technologies
• Take ownership of a brand new product, driving its development from concept and design to full implementation
• Focus on meaningful, high impact work
• Build major parts of a groundbreaking new product
• Build a new offering designed to operate at massive scale
• Dive into new cutting-edge technologies, researching and integrating them to enhance the product’s capabilities

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities