Senior Software Engineer with Go_ Secure Workload Access Team

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!

• Design, develop, test, and operate scalable cloud-native SaaS services for Secure Workload Access.
• Build highly secure and reliable components for workload authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.
• Own features and services end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to deployment.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, and provide well-reasoned technical tradeoff input.
• Implement seamless integrations with Kubernetes, cloud providers, identity systems, and PKI solutions.
• Improve the scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency of owned services.
• Collaborate with product managers and architects to turn requirements into well-designed solutions.
• Review code and actively mentor less experienced engineers through knowledge sharing.
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and improve operational readiness.
• Promote engineering best practices, including rigorous testing, documentation, and code quality.

• Minimum of 5 years of proven software engineering experience, including design, implementation, and operational ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience developing backend systems and distributed services in Golang.
• Solid experience building and operating cloud-native or SaaS platforms at scale.
• Deep understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and service-to-service communication.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex tasks and take ownership of results.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas and tradeoffs clearly.

• Experience in security and identity systems, specifically workload identity, authentication, and authorization.
• Familiarity with networking, encryption, PKI, JWT/SVID technologies, or SPIFFE/SPIRE.
• Proven experience running production systems with high standards for reliability, performance, and security.
• Strong familiarity with observability practices such as logging, monitoring, tracing, and debugging.
• Comfort and adaptability working in fast-moving environments with changing product requirements.

• Additional health insurance with dental treatment included
• Life / permanent disability insurance
• Sick Leave allowance
• Mobile phone plan
• FLEX Benefits wallet
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)