Revolutionizing protection.

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Your Career

Cortex is expanding. We have the pace of a startup and the resources of the world’s cybersecurity leader. We have hundreds of petabytes of data, waiting for you to process, analyze, and apply your magic to it.

We are looking for an experienced backend engineer, who will join a team that will invent, design, engineer, and build a new set of capabilities focused on Data Analytics and Threat Detection within the top-notch Cortex platform. You will have a truly unique opportunity to influence the development of our product. You will work closely with Product Management and R&D leaders, help define the requirements, and conduct a substantial part of the technical research.

Your Impact

• You will develop a product that will apply the power of the Cortex Platform to solve the challenges of cloud security, with a focus on Data Analytics and Threat Detection
• You will apply your knowledge and experience of cloud development and cybersecurity to design and build and integrate new capabilities into our platform

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud server-side applications
• Experience with SQL or at least 1 leading RDBMS
• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker
• Knowledge of Python/Go - advantage
• Experience in cyber-security - advantage
• Experience with NoSQL databases - advantage

The Team

Our Analytics team is the backbone of our data-driven insights, leveraging both innovative tools and custom solutions to process and analyze vast amounts of data. The team is dedicated to identifying critical issues and trends, delivering real-time and historical insights that matter. With a focus on precision, we ensure that only meaningful alerts are surfaced, providing customers with actionable intelligence. Additionally, the team ensures that customer environments meet compliance requirements, benchmarked against industry standards and tailored guidelines.

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.