Senior Staff Engineer, Identity & SSO Platform Architect

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for a global identity platform. You will drive multi-year architecture, influence cross-functional teams, and ensure zero-trust resilience across AWS, .NET, and AI-enabled features.

The role requires 7–10+ years in large-scale SaaS, deep backend expertise, and strong security focus. This senior position emphasizes cloud-scale design, collaboration with chiefs and product leaders, and global deployment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or equivalent.
• 7–10+ years building large-scale enterprise SaaS.
• Proven track record in cloud-native architecture and security.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical roadmap for global identity services.
• Align engineering with business strategy with leaders and directors.
• Solve security and scalability challenges across cloud ecosystems.
• Set engineering standards and security paradigms across teams.
• Evaluate new cloud capabilities and AI/ML integrations.

Skills

Technical leadership

System architecture

Cloud platforms

Backend languages

Security concepts

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS

Tools

AWS

AWS CDK

.NET/C#

Java

Go

Python

OpenAI integration

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for a global identity platform. You will drive multi-year architecture, influence cross-functional teams, and ensure zero-trust resilience across AWS, .NET, and AI-enabled features.

The role requires 7–10+ years in large-scale SaaS, deep backend expertise, and strong security focus. This senior position emphasizes cloud-scale design, collaboration with chiefs and product leaders, and global deployment