Sr Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack - Shadow IT)

Palo Alto Networks® SaaS Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Software Engineer to help scale out our security platform with a sharp focus on platform and infrastructure capabilities. As a member of the team, you have the unique opportunity to:

• Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings
• Lead initiatives in the platform team to deliver security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions
• Work across multiple engineering teams to define an ideal solution for our customers and help resolve customer pain points.

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara, California headquarters campus.

Your Impact

• Build out world class Shadow IT security platform, influencing critical decisions on technology, architecture, integration, and reusability.
• Influence and architect cloud native, distributed computing system design, data ingestion pipelines and data storage solutions.
• Work cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality.
• Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, including requirement analysis, design, development, test, release and support.
• Foster software development best practices to deliver clean, testable, maintainable, readable and scalable code.
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes.
• Identify innovative patentable solutions for complex problems to influence thought leadership within the organization.

• Industry experience building scalable web applications.
• Proficiency in Front-End technologies: React (hooks, Redux, component architecture).
• Strong Back-End development experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python.
• Solid understanding of modern software architecture, microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code solutions like Terraform.
• Familiar with AI-based technologies (e.g., LLM integration, ML model APIs, vector databases) and AI-based productivity tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT).
• Bachelor’s + 4 years or Master’s + 2 yrs experience building scalable web applications.
• Education: M.S./B.S. degree in Engineering, Data Science or equivalent experience in a related field or equivalent military experience required.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are 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.