Sr Staff Engineer Software- Identity SSO (Idira)

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:

We are the Identity, IAM, and SSO team—the frontline architects of secure friction-free access for our enterprise. We unify human employees, static workloads, and dynamic AI agents under a seamless Single Sign-On and zero-trust framework, protecting sensitive systems. We are looking for a visionary Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy, multi-year architecture, and global engineering vision for our Human & Non-Human Identity unified platform. As a principal technical authority, you will use AWS architecture, AWS CDK, and .NET to design next-generation cybersecurity and identity management capabilities. You will influence cross-organizational tech decisions, collaborate with group leaders and chief architects, and set the benchmark for resilience, security, and global cloud scale across multiple engineering teams.

Your Impact:

• Define the long-term technical roadmap, system design patterns, and architectural evolution for global identity services across the enterprise.
• Partner closely with group Leadership, Chief Security Architects, and Product Directors to align business strategy with engineering execution.
• Solve the hardest technical, security, and scalability challenges across cloud ecosystems, distributed databases, and high-availability identity backbones.
• Establish engineering culture, architectural standards, and security paradigms across multiple development teams and product lines.
• Evaluate next-gen cloud capabilities, security mechanisms, and AI/ML integrations to maintain industry leadership.

Qualifications

Your Experience:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or experience from an elite technology unit in the IDF.
• 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading large-scale system architecture for global enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Recognized technical leader with a track record of driving multi-system cloud initiatives to completion.
• Mastery in modern backend technologies (.NET / C#, Java, Go, or Python) and distributed system design patterns.
• Deep knowledge of fault tolerance, zero-trust security paradigms, global data residency, and enterprise scalability.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex architecture simply to stakeholders ranging from junior developers to engineering managers.
• Experience building end-to-end features using models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source ecosystems.

Preferred Qualifications:

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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.