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!

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.

• Help guide and contribute to feature design and implementation to bring the product to the next level.
• Participate in continuous and iterative engineering cycles with emphasis on code quality, supportability, scalability and performance.
• Interpret business requirements to articulate the business needs to be addressed.
• Develop and review unit test cases to ensure comprehensive unit testing.
• Diagnose and fix product issues found internally or in the field.
• Interface with Support to handle customer escalation issues.
• Mentor junior members of the team in their assigned tasks and their technical skills development.

• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 5+ years hands-on software development experience, with the most recent experience preferably in Cloud/Web environment and enterprise scale application development.
• 2+ years hands-on software development experience in IDaas/SaaS/Cloud security/Authentication domain.
• Demonstrated passion for backend engineering, with deep expertise in designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including their architecture, design principles, and core components.
• Proficient understanding of SQL and relationship databases.
• Proficiency with C#, ASP.NET MVC.
• Expertise and hands-on experience with web services (e.g. REST, SOAP).
• Solid understanding of security and networking implementation and best practices.
• Familiarity with general software development release lifecycle, source code management and defect management methodologies.
• Demonstrate ability to complete highly detailed tasks with strict attention to detail, quality and timeliness.
• Strong organizational and self-management skills.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Working experience with Azure and/or AWS a plus.
• Experience with Javascript, CSS, HTML.
• Working experience with Active Directory or other Directory Service a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with authentication standards such as SAML, WS-Fed, OpenId or OAuth a plus.