Senior Principal Backend Engineer (CORTEX - Autonomous SOC)
Core
Design and build scalable server-side infrastructure for Cortex XDR to process billions of events per second and drive an autonomous investigation and response solution.
Role type
Senior Principal Backend Engineer (Autonomous SOC)
Builds
High-throughput data processing infrastructure and autonomous SOC features for endpoint, network, and cloud security
Domain
Cybersecurity / Distributed Cloud Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed cloud product development, Scalable server-side application design, Database technologies (MySQL, Cassandra, BigQuery, Redshift, ElasticSearch), Agentic AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode), Software development lifecycle management
Preferred skills
Go, Python, GCP, Graph databases, Kubernetes, Docker, Cybersecurity domain knowledge
Technologies
MySQL, Cassandra, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, ElasticSearch, Go, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
Responsibilities
Design and build infrastructure supporting billions of events per second, Write clean, testable, readable, fast and maintainable code, Drive the inception, strategy and execution of the autonomous investigation and response solution
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC