Principal Fullstack Software Engineer (Shared Services)
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. Why This Role 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
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
