Senior Staff Software Engineer
TLDR
Lead design and scaling of the connectors framework for an Identity Governance and Administration product, improving integration with enterprise and SaaS systems.
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
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) product. In 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 collaboration—clear 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 Node.js, 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
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.Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed
reasonable accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability.
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity solutions that protect our digital lives by leveraging cutting-edge technology and AI. Designed for organizations of all sizes, their mission is to be the partner of choice in shaping the future of the cybersecurity industry.
- Founded
- Founded 2005
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- computer & network security
- Funding stage
- Public
- Stock ticker
- Publicly traded (PANW)
- Total raised
- $65M raised