Software Engineer - Bachelors - College Grad

Software Engineer (August 2026)

Santa Clara, CA

Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee‑centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in‑person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem‑solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office‑based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

We expect office‑based employees to be in the office three days per week, with two days working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. Those moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive.

Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change … but in general if a role is deemed office‑based we want our teams to be together three days per week.

You will join a Research and Development (R&D) team that will give you the opportunity to make a global impact. One that protects our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyber attacks. A team looking for engineers who are passionate about technology, have an interest in cyber security, and also want to make a positive difference in the world that we live in.

The projects our engineers are assigned will give real hands‑on experience working on our products from our Strata, Prisma and Cortex organizations.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design, develop, and deploy software solutions with agility and rapid iteration.
• Use and experiment with AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, internal agents) to boost productivity and improve code quality.
• Help define and evolve new engineering practices that leverage AI for code generation, testing, documentation, refactoring, and operations.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in peer reviews and team design discussions.
• Contribute to the automation of development, deployment, and monitoring processes as part of a Dev Ops culture.
• Continuously learn and apply new AI technologies, frameworks, and techniques that can enhance developer workflows.
• Participate in team retrospectives and help drive improvements in team velocity and product quality.

• Bachelor's degree earned recently or anticipated to be earned within the next 12 months in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering or something similar
• Strong programming skills in either Python, Java or C
• Familiarity with Networking fundamentals (for Embedded & Distributed Systems positions)
• An understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science
• Exemplify strong initiative and ability to work independently with limited direction
• Ability to work cross functionally with other engineers, researchers and Product Managers
• Excellent communications skills
• Interest in Cybersecurity