Principal Software Engineer (Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform)
Palo Alto NetworksOffice - USA - CA - HeadquartersPosted 9 March 2026
Job Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Summary
Your Career
The Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team is expanding, and we're looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our team. This team is responsible for building unified vulnerability and exposure management experience within XSIAM. This experience involves visualizing, prioritizing and remediating the posture security problems (vulnerabilities, misconfigurations etc) in the customer's environment.
Your Impact
Design, build, and maintain the features for the unified vulnerability and exposure management experience
Take part in architecture strategy sessions - design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various groups across Cortex
Collaborate with teams to solve problems, reduce technical debt, and evolve development practices
Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering org
Collaborate with other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output
Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production
Be a champion of test driven development
Qualifications
Your Experience
8 years of experience as a professional software engineer writing software
Strong Proficiency in Python
Experienced and opinionated about Software development and best practices across backend and frontend
Able to switch between research, design, prototype, and implementation
Working knowledge of at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg GCP, AWS, or Azure), preferably GCP
Experience with CI/CD process
Strong problem solving skills
Technical team leadership
Nice To Haves
Experience with Go, Angular and React
Common understanding of CVEs or Software vulnerabilities
Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and vulnerability methodologies
Proficiency in Linux and Windows operating systems
Demonstrates a basic understanding of how a variety of exploits work and shows skills in enumerating and selecting the correct exploit for a given system
Experience with Jenkins or Gitlab Runners
Experience with Grafana and Prometheus
Experience with StackDriver for log based debugging
Experience working in vulnerability management domain
Experience working with BigQuery
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here .
$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr
Our Commitment
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