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Senior Principal Backend Engineer

Palo Alto Networks·Tel Aviv, Israel·en
On-siteFull-timeBackend DevelopmentCybersecurity

Join a cybersecurity product team to build scalable backend infrastructure and advance an autonomous investigation and response solution.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build infrastructure to store, process, and make billions of events per second accessible to users
  • Own the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design through development, deployment, and support
  • Write clean, testable, readable, efficient, and maintainable code
  • Drive the inception, strategy, and execution of an autonomous investigation and response solution

Requirements

  • At least 9 years of software engineering experience
  • Experience with distributed cloud products
  • Experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Cassandra, BigQuery, Redshift, or Elasticsearch
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable server-side applications
  • Experience with agentic tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent knowledge or military experience

Nice to have

  • Experience with Go or Python
  • Experience with GCP
  • Knowledge of graph databases
  • Experience with Kubernetes or Docker
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity

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