Sr Staff Engineer Software (Idira IGA)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Boston, MA, USA or Needham, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$135k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex end-to-end feature delivery, including work decomposition, commitment management, and cycle-time reduction.
- Lead AI-assisted software development workflows using prompt and context engineering while validating AI-generated code for correctness and security.
- Design scalable, extensible system interfaces and make performance, reliability, and maintainability trade-offs.
- Apply defensive and secure engineering practices across authorization paths, edge conditions, and system limits.
- Partner with product management and design to build intuitive user flows informed by prototypes and telemetry.
- Drive production service health through root cause analysis, reduced mean time to recovery, and durable corrective fixes.
- Run technical experiments, document design patterns and tribal knowledge, and mentor engineering peers without formal authority.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience building enterprise applications with MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, and Node.js.
- Proven experience architecting, deploying, and operating scalable solutions in AWS.
- Expertise in prompt and context engineering and in verifying AI-generated software outputs.
- Strong system design skills, including clean API design, complex codebase refactoring, and long-term scalability trade-offs.
- Extensive experience debugging production services, conducting root cause analyses, and implementing systemic prevention mechanisms.
- Ability to work productively through ambiguous requirements and align technical decisions with business goals.
- Strong cross-functional communication, RFC writing, and mentoring skills.
- Preferred experience with IAM, PAM, IGA, or secrets management platforms.
- Preferred TypeScript experience and familiarity with Jest, Playwright, or JMeter.
- Preferred experience with progressive delivery, CI/CD pipelines, feature flagging, monitoring frameworks, RAG-oriented documentation, and reusable prompt templates.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
Tech Stack
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.