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Senior Principal Engineer (Cortex XSOAR/XSIAM)

Palo Alto Networks

Your Career

We are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer with exceptional cross-functional (XFN) experience and capabilities to join the Cortex XSOAR backend engineering group. Our group is focused on developing, innovating, and scaling the Cortex XSOAR product, along with leveraging and contributing to shared Cortex infrastructures and components.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, reporting to the Director Manager of the group, you will lead and shape the future of the product.

We are seeking a highly motivated team player with proven experience in building large-scale products and exceptional XFN capabilities.  At our core, we value a can-do attitude and passion for solving complex problems. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, drive innovation, and serve as a focal point within the team. Above all, we're looking for a great team member with whom we'll enjoy working.

More information about the Cortex XDR product can be found here


Your Impact

  • Execute on the software development strategy to improve our highly distributed system

  • Understand and implement software development/engineering lifecycle concepts to drive features from conception to delivery

  • Collaborate closely with the product management, architects and devops to achieve quality releases

  • Work hand-in-hand with customer support, documentation and downstream teams to enable customer success

  • Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements

  • Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams

  • Interview, mentor and coach new team members


Your Experience

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale production systems

  • Experience in designing, building and maintaining micro services, distributed systems, and performance optimization

  • Cloud Experience (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

  • Experience with database technologies (Mysql / Redis / BigQuery / Elasticsearch)

  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

  • A self-starter, able to learn independently and adapt quickly

  • Team player with strong communication, collaboration and problem solving skills

  • Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute

  • BSc/MSc in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent or equivalent military experience required


Nice to have

  • Experience in Go / Python - an advantage

  • Experience with GCP - an advantage

  • Experience with OS internals / Linux internals - an advantage

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