Principal Engineer Software (Cortex Platform)

Your CareerAs a Principal Backend Engineer within our On-Prem platform team, you play a pivotal role in building a new on-premise platform for running Cortex products - Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR, Cortex XSIAM and Cortex Cloud You will design and develop 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. Building a highly available, reliable and secured on-premise platform that performs just as good as the cloud product is a significant challenge. Your crucial role goes beyond development, involving cross-organizational impact collaboration to ensure success. The great majority of the Cortex engineering group is located in the Santa Clara and Tel Aviv offices allowing us to operate at a high pace.In this role, you will need to be creative, innovative and demonstrate deep knowledge in Kubernetes, conducting research to find new technologies, with a can-do approach, an internal drive for excellence and improvement, ​​and thrive on bringing value to thousands of customers.Your ImpactAs a Principal Backend Engineer on the team, you will:Huge! Work on a new product, implement major parts from design to implementation! SAAS to on-premise challenge! Building / Enhancing an on-prem platform that will work seamlessly like the SAAS product.Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQueryWho knew? You do! Research new technologies and see how they can be adapted to the productUtilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve themProactively 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 alongKubernetes architecture! Design and implement HA, performance tuning, and disaster recovery strategies for Kubernetes clusters.Design, architect, develop, and maintain Kubernetes architecture productImplement custom Kubernetes operators to automate application lifecycle management and complex deployment scenarios.Automate the deployment and configuration of Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) solutions for on-prem Kubernetes clusters and applications.Implement and manage cloud-native persistent storage solutions (e.g. CEPH) with Kubernetes clusters.Manage and optimize storage solutions within the Kubernetes environment, including persistent volumes and storage classes.Customer First! Provide technical guidance and support to customers deploying our applications in their chosen environments.