Senior Backend Developer

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

Job Description
Your Career
The Cortex AppSec product is responsible for securing the development ecosystem from code to deployment - We scan infrastructure and applications code, VCS configurations, and the interlinking CI/CD systems used to release cloud applications. The product identifies problems, facilitates "shift left" operations, and helps our customers remediate them.

We are looking for a tech-savvy Senior Backend Developer, experienced with a large variety of technologies and frameworks, such as GCP, Python, Go, K8S.

Your Impact

• Developing complex features, end-to-end, including reviewing requirements, providing technical design, leading the execution, and deploying to production
• Designing and implementing an architecture that scales, while maintaining quality, when facing environments with thousands of entities
• Learning and utilizing the latest technologies in the market - Cloud infrastructure, GCP, K8S, Terraform, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, and Golang

Qualifications
Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience working as a Backend Developer
• Experience with Python or Go
• Live production systems with high-scale
• Independent, an autodidact with excellent problem-solving and a Passion for learning cutting-edge technologies
• Experience with K8S, GCP or any other cloud provider

An Advantage

• Experience with TypeScript / GoLang
• Experience with Security products
• Experience with SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
• Experience with ASTs, Code Scanning
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code) - Terraform, Helm, etc.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience

Additional Information
The Team
Our engineering team is at the core of our products – 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.

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

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.