Job Description Your Career We are looking for a Senior Principal Backend Engineer to join our Cortex backend engineering group. The group develops and maintains the backend of Cortex products - Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR, and Cortex XSIAM. The great majority of the Cortex engineering group is located in the Santa Clara and Tel Aviv offices. You will join a team focused on developing, innovating, and scaling the Cortex Platform, along with contributing to shared Cortex infrastructures and components. We are looking for candidates with a can-do attitude, who are passionate about complex problems and thrive on bringing value to thousands of customers. Your Impact As a Senior Principal Engineer on the team, you will: Work regularly across teams as an acknowledged technical leader in the organization Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation as project lead or mentor thereof Lead efforts to align planned work across the product in collaboration with product management, UX design, and fellow engineering stakeholders Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them Proactively spot, articulate, and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution and high output – this may include providing ad hoc mentorship, communicating with project stakeholders, or rolling up your sleeves and stepping in to help move things along Mentor engineers across the department Regularly provide cross-team technical collaboration and consultation Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery Design and build business logic and API endpoints using Python and Flask Design and build backend services using Go #J-18808-Ljbffr
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