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

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer (Cortex XDR) to join our Cortex XDR team and help us to prevent, detect and respond to all runs on integrated endpoint, network and cloud data – reduce the noise and focus on real threats.

Your Impact

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be part of a team that operates with the agility of a startup, supported by the strength and scale of a successful corporation. You will design and build infrastructure capable of handling billions of events per second—storing, processing, and making them accessible to users—while collaborating with leading cyber security products.

In this role, you will take ownership of projects end to end, covering the full software development life cycle: from requirement analysis and design to development, deployment, and ongoing support. You’ll write clean, testable, efficient, and scalable code that ensures performance at scale.

Beyond being a hands-on technical contributor, you will serve as a Tech Lead, driving the technical vision and execution of our infrastructure components. In this role, you’ll guide cross-team integrations, mentor engineers, and combine deep technical expertise with strategic leadership—setting direction, solving complex challenges, and delivering solutions that keep our cyber products at the forefront of the industry.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge
• 7+ years of software engineering experience - Must
• Experience in distributed cloud products
• Experience with networking protocols
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining a scalable server side application
• Experience in Go / Python - an advantage
• Experience with GCP - advantage
• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker - advantage
• Knowledge of the cyber field - advantage
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

You’ll join a group of talented engineers who combine startup agility with the scale of a global cybersecurity leader. We take full ownership of projects end to end, collaborate closely across teams, and build infrastructure that processes billions of events per second. Our culture values technical excellence, mentorship, and innovation—driving solutions that keep our products ahead of emerging threats.

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 [email protected].

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.