Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Shared Services
$147-237.5k
More information about location
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Leading cybersecurity protections and software platform
Be an early applicant
Leading cybersecurity protections and software platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$147-237.5k
More information about location
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience building distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Proficiency in Golang (preferred) or strong backend experience with willingness to ramp quickly
- Experience with React + TypeScript for building scalable frontend applications
- Solid understanding of event-driven systems, asynchronous processing and workflow orchestration
- Hands-on experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, including services like GKE and managed databases
- Experience with MongoDB, Redis, and/or cloud-native data stores
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern containerized deployments
- Strong understanding of API design (REST/gRPC), versioning, and backward compatibility
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
- Deep commitment to testing and quality, including unit, contract, integration, and E2E testing
- Good understanding of security fundamentals and data protection principles
- Ability to work in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment with evolving requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and a bias toward execution and delivery
Desirable
- Experience with Temporal or workflow orchestration systems
- Exposure to IAM systems, entitlement systems or SaaS provisioning workflows
- Experience building platforms that integrate across multiple products/services
- Familiarity with observability stacks and production monitoring best practices
- Contributions to frameworks or platform-level tooling
What the job involves
- Our Cloud Management Platform (Shared Services / Hub) team is building the next-generation Licensing & Activation platform that powers entitlement, provisioning and activation for all Palo Alto Networks cloud products
- This platform sits at the center of a highly distributed ecosystem - integrating with multiple teams across the company. We are re-architecting the platform as a scalable, event-driven, microservices platform with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and developer velocity
- We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who thrives in complex distributed systems, enjoys solving deep platform problems, and wants to build systems that directly impact every customer
- You will be working on a central platform that every Palo Alto Networks product depends on
- Opportunity to shape a greenfield + transformation architecture at scale
- High visibility across Product and Engineering leadership
- Ability to directly influence architecture, engineering standards, and platform direction
- Design and build distributed microservices that power entitlement, provisioning, and activation workflows across Palo Alto Networks products
- Develop event-driven architectures leveraging Pub/Sub and workflow orchestration
- Own both backend services (Golang-based) and frontend experiences (React / TypeScript) for activation and management workflows
- Build high-scale, highly available APIs with strong versioning and backward compatibility guarantees
- Design and operate data models and storage systems across multiple cloud delivered DBs
- Drive shift-left testing—own unit, contract, integration and functional test coverage as part of the development lifecycle
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) enabling safe, frequent and automated deployments
- Improve system observability, monitoring, and operational excellence across services
- Collaborate cross-functionally with multiple teams to deliver end-to-end customer onboarding flows
- Continuously identify opportunities to simplify architecture, improve scalability, and reduce operational overhead
- Mentor engineers and help raise the bar on engineering quality, ownership, and execution
Our take
With cyber threats evolving at lightening speed, businesses need robust solutions to protect their data and infrastructure. And the global cybersecurity market is projected to grow significantly, driven by increasing cyberattacks and the adoption of digital transformation initiatives. Because of this, companies are seeking security platforms that can address these challenges efficiently.
That's where Palo Alto Networks steps in, a frontrunner in the cybersecurity arena. It offers a suite of AI-powered security solutions designed to safeguard enterprises across various sectors. Its platforms, such as Cortex XSIAM and Prisma AIRS, integrate advanced threat detection, zero trust architecture, and real-time response capabilities so organizations are ready to manage and mitigate risks.
Its leadership is evident too, with impressive growth and strategic partnerships. Recently the company surpassed $1.5M in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace, highlighting the demand for its innovative security solutions. Additionally, a collaboration with AT&T aims to enhance cybersecurity offerings, further solidifying its position in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$34m
SERIES A
May 2022
$11m
SEED
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We value your health and provide options so you can choose what best supports your lifestyle and personal health goals. Various nationwide plans — including Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, Delta Dental, VSP, and more — are available to you and your family. Our providers offer the flexibility you want and the coverage you need
- Wellness: With a large on-site gym and daily, instructor-led exercise classes at HQ in Santa Clara, Palo Alto Networks actively supports employee fitness. Our juice bar, Gym & Juice, features fresh juice blends, a quick and nutritious option pre- or post-workout. And our ongoing wellness speaker series highlights the latest trends in health and wellness
- Development: Professional development is serious business at Palo Alto Networks, where the Talent Development team offers 25+ courses to help employees boost their careers and develop leadership capability
- Financial: Most roles are eligible for equity grants, and we now offer new hires a quarterly vesting schedule right away. We want you to be fairly compensated and rewarded as soon as you make an impact – on our team, that happens immediately! And because we consider every employee a stakeholder in our long-term success, we offer an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 24-month lookback. From life insurance to health savings accounts, we provide ways to help you protect and grow your wealth. Palo Alto Networks offers both traditional and Roth 401(k) options, along with a company match of 50% to a max annual amount of $1,000
- Time Off: In addition to paid corporate holidays, Flexible Time Off programs empower our employees to balance their work schedules with personal time off. We offer 12 weeks of full pay for medical leave and 6 weeks of full pay for parental leave. As a company with strong ties to the military and veterans, we also offer 26 weeks of full pay for military leave
- Perks: Our corporate discount program provides employees with significant discounts on merchandise, travel and entertainment. We offer many on-site perks at headquarters, including cafeterias, fuel service, dry cleaning service, EV charging stations, and a company store. We also provide complimentary drinks, fresh fruit, and snacks in break rooms across our campus to help everyone power through the day. Life at Palo Alto Network
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Nikesh Arora
(CEO & Chairman)Previously the President and COO at SoftBank, CBO at Google, and CMO at T-Mobile.
Nir Zuk
(Founder & CTO)Previously CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Neworks in 2004. They also co-founded OneSecure where they served as CTO and was the Principal Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies.
Lee Klarich
(CPO)Initially joined Palo Alto in 2006 as the EVP of Product Management and became CPO in 2018. Prior to this, they were the Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks and a Product Line Manager at NetScreen Technologies.
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