Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer; Shared Services

Requirements

• If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
• Strong experience building distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Proficiency in Golang (preferred) or strong backend experience with willingness to ramp quickly
• Experience with React + Type Script 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 Mongo
  
  DB, 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 Dev Ops 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
• (Desirable) Experience with Temporal or workflow orchestration systems
• (Desirable) Exposure to IAM systems, entitlement systems or SaaS provisioning workflows
• (Desirable) Experience building platforms that integrate across multiple products/services
• (Desirable) Familiarity with observability stacks and production monitoring best practices
• (Desirable) Contributions to frameworks or platform‑level tooling

• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 / Type Script) 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 (Git Lab) 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