Senior/Principal Backend Engineer - Application (Cortex Platform)

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cortex Platform Application team, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and operating critical backend platform services used across Cortex. This role is for an engineer who can combine deep platform/backend expertise with strong ownership, practical execution, and cross-team influence. You will help build scalable and reliable services, guide technical decisions, improve engineering methods, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of how the team designs, ships, documents, tests, and operates its systems. The team owns a broad set of platform capabilities, including areas such as application configuration, dashboards and reporting infrastructure, metrics, multi-tenant and MSSP infrastructure, log forwarding, notifications, auditing, access and permission engines, filtering and querying infrastructure, and other shared application platform domains. We are looking for someone who is not only strong technically

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5+ years of professional experience in backend/platform software development.
Strong hands-on experience with backend development using languages such as Go, Javascript, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, or similar.
Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
Strong understanding of software architecture, data modeling, APIs, reliability, observability, and production operations.
Experience working in cloud-based environments.
Ability to lead technical decisions while staying close to the code and implementation details.
Strong ownership mindset, including accountability for production behavior, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards within a team.
Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams without relying on authority.
Practical, collaborative, low-ego working style.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azu