Senior Staff Software Engineer
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Job Summary
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto 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 youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre 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. Thats why most of our teams work from the office full time with flexibility when its needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving stronger relationships and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
Job Summary
We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join a small team of senior engineers building the connectors framework for our Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) this role you will help code design secure improve scale test and maintain how our platform integrates with enterprise and Saas systems.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 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 collaborationclear 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with 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
Our Commitment
Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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 .
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 No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.Required Experience:
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