Senior/Principal Backend Engineer (CIEM)

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 seeking an experienced and talented backend principal software engineer to work with Java in a Spring Boot framework and a microservices architecture. You will face challenges in algorithmics, architecture, and scalability, requiring you to master new technologies and become productive in a short time. You will work with cutting-edge technologies bound to become the next standards in the security industry.

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Your Impact

• Take part in the development of a large and complex cloud security solution for large organizations.

• Master cloud security to develop the most advanced cloud security solution in the market.

• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Java code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers.

• Develop using the most advanced Java technologies to date.

• Design your features in an advanced architecture model built to meet the scalability requirements by our large customers.

Qualifications

Your experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in building complex, high scale SaaS solutions.

• Experience with working with, or building for any of the public cloud providers with - AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.

• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases.

• Flexible and passionate to learn new domains.

• Team player, collaborative and with high communication skills.

• Computer science or an equivalent degree or equivalent military experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Java using Spring framework.

• Experience with working with, or building for GCP.

• Experience with IAM for managing identities access and permissions modeling.

• Experience with Neo4j graph database management system.

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.