Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer (Shared Services)

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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-moving environment with evolving requirements
• Strong problem-solving skills and a bias toward execution and delivery

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Temporal or workflow orchestration systems
• Exposure to IAM systems, entitlement systems or SaaS provisioning workflows
• Experience building platforms that integrate across multiple products/services
• Familiarity with observability stacks and production monitoring best practices
• Contributions to frameworks or platform-level tooling

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

Benefits

• Restricted stock units
• Bonus
• Employee benefits may be found here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees