Cortex by Palo Alto Networks

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Cortex by Palo Alto Networks

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $165,000 - $195,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
  • Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones
  • Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems
  • Participate in operating our systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basis
  • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices
  • Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences
  • Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ 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
Benefits
  • National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)
  • Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours
  • 401k plan
  • Gender-neutral parental leave
  • $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
  • $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)
  • Pet Insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentprogramming languagesdistributed systemsmicroservicescloud computingMySQLPostgresMongoDBdata structuresalgorithms
Soft Skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillscommunicationcollaborationmentoringcoaching
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science