Principal Backend & Cloud Engineer Agentless (Cortex Cloud)

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

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a backend engineer with at least 5 years of experience - must!
• Computer science or an equivalent degree or equivalent military experience - must!
• A strong passion for software development
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of microservices architecture, cloud environments, and cloud-native technologies - big advantage
• Previous experience in building infrastructure from scratch or migrating legacy systems to microservices architecture
• Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tools like Jenkins or GitLab
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack
  
  

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.