Software Engineer

Your Career

You will join a Research and Development (R&D) team that will give you the opportunity to make a global impact. One that protects our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyber attacks. A team looking for engineers who are passionate about technology have an interest in cyber security and also want to make a positive difference in the world that we live in. The projects our engineers are assigned will give real hands-on experience working on our products from our Strata Prisma and Cortex organizations.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design develop and deploy software solutions with agility and rapid iteration.

• Use and experiment with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Cursor Claude Code internal agents) to boost productivity and improve code quality.

• Help define and evolve new engineering practices that leverage AI for code generation testing documentation refactoring and operations.

• Write clean maintainable code and participate in peer reviews and team design discussions.

• Contribute to the automation of development deployment and monitoring processes as part of a DevOps culture.

• Continuously learn and apply new AI technologies frameworks and techniques that can enhance developer workflows.

• Participate in team retrospectives and help drive improvements in team velocity and product quality.

Qualifications :

• 13 years of hands-on software engineering experience in a collaborative agile environment.

• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Python JavaScript/TypeScript Java Go or similar).

• Basic understanding of software development lifecycles (e.g. agile DevOps) and version control tools like Git.

• Enthusiasm for using AI tools to assist in development tasks and a growth mindset around learning and experimentation.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; a willingness to ask questions and work openly with others.

• A bias toward action and a desire to work in a fast-moving forward-looking team.

Preferred (Not Required) Qualifications:

• Exposure to large language models (LLMs) or AI/ML APIs even through personal projects.

• Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP AWS or Azure) and containerized development (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).

• Experience with modern developer tools such as CI/CD pipelines observability platforms and infrastructure-as-code

Your Experience 

• We are seeking creative thinkers and team players with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities excellent communication and collaboration skills and a high degree of curiosity and learning agility. You should exemplify strong initiative and the ability to work independently with limited direction and be able to work cross-functionally with other engineers researchers and Product Managers. An understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and an interest in Cybersecurity are essential.

Education & Role-Specific Requirements:

• Were looking for highly motivated and skilled new bachelors graduates to join our 2025 cohort. We welcome applicants who have recently earned their degree between May/June 2023 and July 2025.

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Requirements

• We will only consider Bachelors candidates with permanent work authorization for this role. 

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. Based on role availability your interests and qualifications the intended compensation for each role is posted below. The compensation offered for this position will be standard for all hires at the same level and location. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

• (Software Engineer - Bachelors) The base salary is expected to be $130000.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time