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.

Job Summary

We are looking for an curious and results-driven Staff Software Engineer to join our Secure Workload Access (SWA) SaaS team. In this role, you will help build the future of secure workload communication by designing and operating distributed systems across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and identity systems. You will contribute to significant features from technical design through production deployment, ensuring scalability and operational efficiency. This is a unique opportunity to shape cloud-native security and centralized policy-driven access management at enterprise scale.

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why we prefer the hybrid model of working from the office with flexibility to work from home twice per week. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Implement seamless integrations with Kubernetes, cloud providers, identity systems, and PKI solutions.
• Improve the scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency of owned services.
• Review code and actively mentor other engineers through knowledge sharing.
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and improve operational readiness.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, including rigorous testing, documentation, and code quality.
• Learn about secure software development, building and owning SaaS software, workload identity, and more.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of proven software engineering experience, including design and implementation.
• Strong hands-on experience developing backend systems and distributed services in Golang.
• Solid experience building and operating SaaS software.
• 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 tasks and take ownership of results.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

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

What you will get: 

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

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.