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Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer (Shared Services)

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Santa Clara, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 5/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/28/2026
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

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.

Why This Role

  • 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

Key Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 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 Google Cloud Platform (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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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

Compensation Disclosure

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

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

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.

Salary : $147,000 - $237,500

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