Senior Staff Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own medium-sized features in our connectors framework from design through production. In this role, you will work independently on diverse problems that require weighing many factors, and you will find simple solutions that keep the framework easy to maintain.

About Paloaltonetworks

• 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.
• Our Commitment We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo.

Responsibilities

• You will write the designs for features in your component, rewrite modules with a solid grasp of the overall architecture, and mentor junior engineers along the way.
• You’ll Do Own Medium-Sized Framework Features: Take a framework feature from design to production.
• Examples include checkpoint and resume for long-running syncs, per-credential rate limiting, or write-operation support in the no-code connector framework.
• Write functional and design specifications for features in your area of the framework, and argue your design decisions in reviews.
• Refactor or rewrite framework modules and services, with a solid understanding of the overall architecture, performance, deployment, and debugging.
• Make sure the features you build handle deletions, partial failures, and retries without corrupting the identity inventory.
• Fix complicated framework issues and customer escalations, and join support calls alongside senior engineers and PM.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for your component, and rigorously evaluate AI-generated code and configuration to prevent hallucinations, security gaps, and logic defects.
• Handle customer credentials, tokens, and tenant isolation correctly in everything you build, and resolve security findings in your area.
• Mentor junior engineers on code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Do what it takes, including sensible trade-offs, to deliver on time.
• As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the connectors framework, you will be a go-to engineer for your area of the platform.
• The features you own will shape how accurately and reliably identity data reaches our product.
• Your impact will be measured by the quality and durability of the features you deliver, how well you handle ambiguity, and the growth of the engineers you mentor.
• Experience debugging complicated production issues and customer cases.
• Expert understanding of development processes and tools, including issue tracking, source control, and CI/CD.
• Expertise in prompt and context engineering, with peer-review rigor to verify AI output for correctness and security.
• Good understanding of customer use cases, problems, and considerations.

Requirements

• Turn vague or complex requirements into simple, well-scoped pieces, and keep making progress when the path is unclear.
• Experience with distributed job schedulers, queues, or durable workflow engines, such as Agenda, SQS, Kafka, or Temporal.
• Experience with agents or gateways that run inside customer networks and connect back to a cloud service.
• Deep hands-on experience building enterprise-grade services with Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, and MongoDB.
• Experience building data sync or ETL pipelines that handle idempotency, retries, pagination, and rate limits.
• Practical experience with REST, SCIM 2.0, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs, plus OAuth 2.0 and other enterprise authentication schemes.
• Experience building and operating services on AWS.
• Able to write clear functional and design specifications that explain trade-offs.

Preferred

• Identity & Access Security Domain: Direct experience with IAM, PAM, IGA, or Secrets Management platforms.
• Familiarity with SCIM or entitlement modeling.
• Experience extending low-code or no-code integration platforms, or transformation languages such as JSONata or JSONPath.
• Fluency with Jest or Vitest, contract testing, JMeter for load testing, and monitoring tools such as Datadog.

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 [email protected] . 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.