Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex team and help us to prevent, detect and respond to all runs on an integrated endpoint, network and cloud data – reduce the noise and focus on real threats.
More information about the Cortex XDR product can be found here.
Your Impact
•You will be a part of a group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation - You will design and build an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industry's leading cyber products
•You will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support - You will write clean, testable, readable, fast and maintainable code that is efficient and scalable
•Drive the inception, strategy and execution of our autonomous investigation and response solution (Autonomous SOC)
Qualifications
•9+ years of software engineering experience - Must
•Experience in distributed cloud products
•Experienced with a variety of database technologies (Mysql / Cassandra / Google BigQuery Amazon Redshift / ElasticSearch)
•Experience in designing, building and maintaining a scalable server-side application
•Experience with Agentic tools (Cursor, claude code, codex, opencode) - MUST
•BSc in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge or equivalent military experience required
•Experience in Go / Python - an advantage
•Experience with GCP - advantage
•Knowledge of graph databases - advantage
•Experience with Kubernetes/Docker - advantage
•Knowledge of the cyber field - advantage
Immigration Sponsorship
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
