Lead Software Engineer

Cortex by Palo Alto Networks

full-time

Posted on: 8/26/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $215,000 - $250,000 per year

Senior

CloudDistributed SystemsMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLPostgres

About the role

Cortex is the enterprise Internal Developer Portal built to accelerate engineering excellence
Solve deeply technical problems and address scalability issues
Design, implement, and maintain core backend systems powering Cortex
Work closely with product, support, and other engineering teams
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
Build new features and enhance existing ones alongside other engineers
Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems
Participate in operating systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basis
Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code adhering to best practices
Partner with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and customers to understand design requests
Continually improve planning, development, and deployment processes

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience building backend applications using any modern programming language
Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms
Experience with modern data storage solutions, such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
Knowledge of current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages
Solid fundamental skills in data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers