PALO IT
The Senior Principal Software Engineer, Tools & Platforms (Cortex) at Palo Alto Networks is a highly influential technical leadership role focused on building innovative tools, platforms, and infrastructure to enable engineering excellence at scale. This position involves defining architectural vision, driving cross-functional technical initiatives, and mentoring engineering teams to improve developer productivity and platform reliability. The role requires deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern software engineering practices.
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
Company Size
10001+ employees
Founded
2005
Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers integrated security platforms to prevent cyberattacks across networks, cloud environments, and endpoints. Its portfolio includes next‑generation firewalls, cloud‑native security (Prisma Cloud), AI‑driven detection and response (Cortex), and Zero Trust networking and secure access solutions for hybrid workforces. The company combines hardware and software with threat intelligence, consulting, managed services, and training to help CISOs, SOCs, cloud architects and network teams automate and scale security operations.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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