Sr Staff Engineer Software (Prisma Access)
Palo Alto NetworksOffice - USA - CA - HeadquartersPosted 9 March 2026
Job Description
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
Your Career:
Prisma Access (formally GlobalProtect Cloud Service) provides protection straight from the cloud to make access to the cloud secure. It combines the connectivity and security you need - and delivers it everywhere you need it. Using cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next-generation security protection to all cloud services, customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.
As a Sr Staff Software Engineer - you will build and design distributed backend services that are the backbone of our platform. You will need to think wide about all system components and will need to consider the trade-offs with every design decision you make. You will work with the latest technologies and development methodologies to achieve the best outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to join very early and take charge of new product architecture and build it from scratch.
Your Impact:
Design scalable system architectures, participate in team-wide initiatives, and deliver immediate resolutions to production challenges to guarantee a seamless user experience.
Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers
Actively guide testing of critical components in the product, taking into account complex considerations of multiple platforms, performance, supportability, maintainability and much more.
Collaborate closely with the Product management, Development, Quality Assurance, SRE and Customer support teams
Contribute to a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
Write design documents, software development guidelines, and best practices
Provide mentorship and coaching to team members to foster their professional growth.
Qualifications
Your Experience:
8 years’ experience in building complex, high scale SaaS solutions - Preferably experienced in Golang.
Passion for software engineering and coding, energetic and eager to create and outperform.
Experience in developing cloud distributed applications and cloud infrastructures
Strong computer science fundamentals and understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
Proven record designing and implementing scalable REST APIs, services and data pipelines.
Hands-on experience using SQL/NoSQL based databases.
Understanding of microservices-based deployments with the ability to introduce monitoring/tracing of application logs (e.g. Splunk) from inception.
Experience handling Devops, SRE, availability and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product.
Some experience with running complex workloads on cloud-based architectures on one or more cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and their technologies (Lambda func ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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