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Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
Your Career
We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.
The Team
As part of the Device Security cloud infrastructure team, you’ll be working on building our state of art realtime data analytics system and high performance serving system. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredible complex cyberthreats.
Your Impact
- Integrate generative AI capabilities to automate routine coding tasks and improve developer productivity for SDLC.
- Design intelligent interfaces that leverage AI to provide proactive security insights and threat visualizations.
- Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed services for Device Security products to exchange IoT intelligences and extend system functionality through integrations with third party systems like ServiceNow, SIEMs and Cisco/ISE etc.
- Design and implement the highly scalable and high performance services to support IoT devices’ operational technology support
- Design and implement Device Security Web Service APIs using NodeJS and SQL/Nosql database technology to provide key metrics and analytics for IoT devices
- Design and implement algorithms for Device Security event connector and inspector management services to transfer customer network data into the cloud for storage and analytics at scale
- Design and implement data pipeline to support Device Security features like device Identification, alert publishing, and device status tracking
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Must have BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8~12+ years software development experience
- Must have 7+ years of working experience with Amazon AWS, Google GCP or MS Azure
- Must have 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving system
- Must have 7~10== years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python
- Must have experience with Linux and Shell scripting
- Must have good communication skills
- Must have great problem-solving skills
- Prefer knowledge of MongoDB, Kafka/firehose, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions.
- Prefer knowledge of Network domain
- Prefer experiences in building real-time analytics systems or machine learning systems
- Good to have experience in Single Sign On (SSO) integration, Graph Data Lakehouse
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yrOur Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
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.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: YesOur Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
Your Career
We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.
The Team
As part of the Device Security cloud infrastructure team, you’ll be working on building our state of art realtime data analytics system and high performance serving system. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredible complex cyberthreats.
Your Impact
- Integrate generative AI capabilities to automate routine coding tasks and improve developer productivity for SDLC.
- Design intelligent interfaces that leverage AI to provide proactive security insights and threat visualizations.
- Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed services for Device Security products to exchange IoT intelligences and extend system functionality through integrations with third party systems like ServiceNow, SIEMs and Cisco/ISE etc.
- Design and implement the highly scalable and high performance services to support IoT devices’ operational technology support
- Design and implement Device Security Web Service APIs using NodeJS and SQL/Nosql database technology to provide key metrics and analytics for IoT devices
- Design and implement algorithms for Device Security event connector and inspector management services to transfer customer network data into the cloud for storage and analytics at scale
- Design and implement data pipeline to support Device Security features like device Identification, alert publishing, and device status tracking
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Must have BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8~12+ years software development experience
- Must have 7+ years of working experience with Amazon AWS, Google GCP or MS Azure
- Must have 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving system
- Must have 7~10== years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python
- Must have experience with Linux and Shell scripting
- Must have good communication skills
- Must have great problem-solving skills
- Prefer knowledge of MongoDB, Kafka/firehose, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions.
- Prefer knowledge of Network domain
- Prefer experiences in building real-time analytics systems or machine learning systems
- Good to have experience in Single Sign On (SSO) integration, Graph Data Lakehouse
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yrOur Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
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.
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- CVS Health30
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in back end developer jobs.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side language such as Python, Java, Node.js, or Go
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- Working knowledge of relational databases including SQL query optimization
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
- Experience with version control using Git and collaborative development workflows
- Understanding of containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
Tips for Your Back End Developer Job Search
Tailor your resume to the stack
Back end roles are filtered hard on specific technologies. If the job description lists Node.js and PostgreSQL, mirror that exact language in your resume rather than listing every language you've ever touched. Recruiters screen by stack before they read anything else.
Quantify system impact on your resume
Vague bullets like 'improved API performance' get skipped. Describe the scale you worked at, the problem you solved, and the measurable outcome. Latency reduced, requests per second handled, or uptime improved all signal engineering judgment to a hiring team.
Build a GitHub portfolio around production-like work
Interviewers look at your GitHub before the call. Push projects that show system design decisions: a REST or GraphQL API with authentication, database schema, and documentation. A single well-documented repo outweighs a dozen half-finished projects.
Filter openings by your actual stack
Back end is broad. A Python microservices role and a Java monolith role require different preparation. Narrow your search to the languages and frameworks you can represent confidently in a technical screen. Shallow applications across mismatched stacks slow your pipeline down.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists back end developer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for system design questions at every level
Even junior back end interviews now include a light system design component. Practice designing a URL shortener, a rate limiter, or a simple messaging queue out loud. Interviewers care more about your reasoning process than a perfect answer.
Back End Developer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most back end developers?
The companies hiring the most back end developers right now include CVS Health, ALTRUIST, and Tillster, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in fintech, healthtech, and enterprise SaaS organizations scaling their engineering teams.
How many back end developer jobs are remote?
About 68% of back end developer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making it one of the more remote-accessible engineering disciplines. API development, microservices work, and cloud infrastructure roles tend to have the highest remote availability compared to roles requiring close coordination with on-site hardware or data center teams.
How do you become a back end developer?
Start by gaining proficiency in a server-side language like Python, Node.js, or Java, then learn how to build and consume REST APIs. Study relational databases and practice writing efficient SQL queries. Build projects that demonstrate those skills on GitHub. From there, pursue roles at a junior level, where you'll develop production experience with deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and system design.
Can you get a back end developer job without professional experience?
Yes, back end developer roles at the junior level regularly go to candidates without prior professional experience if they can demonstrate technical competence. A portfolio with working API projects, database integration, and clean documentation substitutes for a work history. Contributing to open-source projects and completing take-home assessments confidently are two of the most direct ways to close the experience gap.
What does the back end developer interview process look like?
Most back end developer interviews include a recruiter screen, a technical phone screen covering language fundamentals and data structures, and a multi-stage loop with a coding exercise, a system design discussion, and a behavioral interview. Take-home assignments are common at startups. Senior roles weight the system design round most heavily, while junior roles focus more on coding problem-solving and foundational knowledge.
Where can I find and apply to back end developer jobs?
You can find and apply to back end developer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your stack and experience level, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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