Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer (Shared Services)

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 GCP (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-m