Senior Staff Software Engineer

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!

• Contribute to architecture and system design for connector services: APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and operational boundaries.
• Harden and scale the framework and related microservices for performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
• Partner with product and engineering peers on technical trade-offs, roadmap alignment, and production readiness.
• Participate in code review, design discussion, and incident learning; help raise engineering quality across the team.

• Senior-level experience: approximately 8+ years in software engineering, with sustained ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation
• Strong grounding in software and systems design (abstractions, contracts, failure modes, scalability, and security implications).
• Hands-on experience shipping and operating microservices on AWS in production
• Relevant technical depth in integration or connector-style systems (sync and incremental jobs, retries, idempotency, backpressure, rate limits); distributed backends at meaningful scale
• Demonstrated impact such as improving reliability, performance, or security with clear outcomes; active participation in design reviews; and production accountability
• Excellent communication and collaboration-clear technical writing, constructive code review, and productive partnership across functions.
• Strong curiosity and learning mindset, including comfort ramping on unfamiliar domains when the problem demands it.

• Experience with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
• Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g. Datadog: metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, alerting, SLO-oriented workflows).
• Comfort with AI-assisted / agentic development (e.g. Cursor) for implementation, exploration, and review.
• Experience mentoring or leveling up others through review, pairing, or technical leadership without people-management responsibility.
• Identity or IGA-adjacent domain knowledge - user and entitlement lifecycle, provisioning and deprovisioning, access reviews, integrations with HRIS / ITSM / directories, SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, and familiarity with audit, compliance, and least-privilege concerns in access systems