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Senior Rust Software Engineer - Data Classification (Cortex Cloud)

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Software Engineering
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Jun 4, 2025

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Senior Engineer on the Data Classification team, you’ll lead the design and development of scalable solutions that help customers understand and protect their data. You’ll work across the full product lifecycle- design, implementation, testing, and deployment—while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration. Beyond your own contributions, you’ll raise the bar for those around you, driving innovation, mentoring teammates, and pushing for continuous improvement.

Your Impact

  • Supercharge data security protection by developing solutions helping clients understand what kind of data they have, and where
  • Make significant contributions to feature development by engaging in design, implementation, testing, and deployment processes
  • Collaborate with other cross functional teams in order to create tight integrations of product features and infrastructure
  • Ship innovation for solutions dealing with high scale data and operations
  • Serve as a leading individual in a very strong team professionally and personally - We’re looking for someone who not only delivers their own work but improves that of those around them
  • Generate ideas and actively participate in brainstorming sessions to foster innovation within the product
  • Identify areas for improvement within the team and actively push for positive change through new initiatives or optimizations

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • BSc degree in Computer Science and 8+ years of work experience or MSc degree in Computer Science with 6+ years experience or equivalent military experience
  • Strong understanding of Rust & idiomatic concepts
  • Python experience in a large-scale cloud environment
  • Strong understanding of how applications and OS interact
  • Experience with multi-threaded and multi-process development with a focus on performance
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra - Have the ability to “make stuff work" on top of writing good code
  • Outstanding drive and communication skills

Advantages

  • Professional experience with Rust - Big advantage
  • Go experience
  • Comfortable with Regex & Character encodings
  • Experience with applications running remotely at scale
  • Familiarity with Cyber Technologies, Information Security and Software Security, etc.

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.