Palo Alto Networks
Staff Software Engineer
$130K–$170K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 2 years of experience in the Staff Software Engineer role or any other related occupation, job title/position.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science, or related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- PANW is not offering new employer-sponsored immigration support to external applicants for this job opportunity.
About the job
Designs, develops, and deploys software while improving engineering practices, DevOps automation, and AI-assisted developer workflows.
What you'll do
- Collaborate across teams to design, develop, and deploy software solutions.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and help apply AI to coding, testing, documentation, refactoring, and operations.
- Improve engineering practices and automate development, deployment, and monitoring processes.
What they ask for
- Java and Python.
- Distributed microservices architecture.
- Docker containerization, MongoDB, Redis, and cloud-native applications.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
Pay
$129,790.00 - $169,500.00 per year (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, Docker, MongoDB, Redis, Cursor, Claude Code
AI focus
Uses AI-assisted development tools and applies AI to code generation, testing, documentation, refactoring, operations, and developer workflows.
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