Palo Alto Networks
Senior Staff Engineer Software (Cortex Platform)
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes.
About the job
Develop and scale backend features, shared infrastructure, and distributed server-side systems for the Cortex product suite.
What you'll do
- Lead backend feature development through design, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Build and maintain high-scale distributed applications, prioritizing reliability, performance, simplicity, and maintainability.
- Collaborate across teams and with customers; contribute to technical decisions and code and design reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing and building scalable server-side applications.
- Experience with both RDBMS and NoSQL databases, and with distributed cloud products and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in Python or Go.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure; Docker and Kubernetes; or CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
Tools
Python, Go, RDBMS, NoSQL, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker
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