Principal Software Engineer - Credential Provider
Palo Alto Networks2 days ago
Sofia, BulgariaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy, system architecture, and long-term design evolution for core Idira Credential Provider components.
- Solve complex technical challenges involving performance, scalability, security, and enterprise system architecture.
- Connect the team with R&D groups and engineering leadership across Bulgaria and Israel to drive strategic alignment and execution.
- Lead product hardening and threat mitigation by translating security assessments into scalable architectural solutions.
- Mentor engineers across sites and promote rigorous design reviews, code reviews, and modern engineering standards.
- Evaluate and integrate modern technologies, frameworks, and AI-assisted software development workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including deep mastery of C++ and proficiency in Java, C#, Go, or Python.
- Proven experience architecting, designing, and delivering complex, large-scale enterprise systems from inception through production.
- Strong ability to define architectural vision, influence technical roadmaps, and align multi-site R&D teams.
- Deep expertise in low-level system design, multithreaded backend architecture, performance tuning, and cross-OS C++ development on Windows and Linux.
- Strategic ownership, technical rigor, and strong complex problem-solving abilities.
- Preferred expertise in cybersecurity, secrets management, Identity & Access Management, privileged access management, or OS security internals.
- Preferred experience establishing technical foundations for satellite sites or distributed R&D teams, championing AI coding tools, and working with AWS and enterprise deployment models.
Benefits
- Additional health insurance with dental treatment included.
- Life and permanent disability insurance.
- Sick leave allowance.
- Mobile phone plan.
- FLEX Benefits wallet.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Most teams work hybrid, flexibly from the office and home, although the company states that collaboration generally thrives in person.
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.