Senior Principal Backend Engineer (CORTEX - Autonomous SOC)

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. 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 We are looking for a Senior Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex team and help us to prevent, detect and respond to all runs on an integrated endpoint, network and cloud data – reduce the noise and focus on real threats. More information about the Cortex XDR product can be found here. Your Impact You will be a part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation - You will design and build an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industry’s leading cyber products You will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support - You will write clean, testable, readable, fast and maintainable code that is efficient and scalable Drive the inception, strategy and execution of our autonomous investigation and response solution (Autonomous SOC)