Senior Staff Software Engineer – Identity & Cloud Platform

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a visionary Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the technical strategy and multi-year architecture for our Identity Directory Service and User Management platform. You will leverage AWS, CDK, and .NET to shape next-generation security and identity capabilities, influencing leaders and architects across the organization.

You will drive high-impact architecture, tackle security and scalability challenges, and build end-to-end features with AI integrations while

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience leading large-scale architecture for global enterprise SaaS.
• Expertise in identity protocols (SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, SCIM, LDAP).

Responsibilities

• Define long-term technical roadmap for identity services.
• Lead cross-organizational architectural decisions and standards.
• Design secure, scalable, zero-trust architectures across multi-region deployments.
• Mentor multiple development teams and establish engineering culture.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

AI integrations

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS CDK

.NET/C#

Java

Go

Python

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a visionary Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the technical strategy and multi-year architecture for our Identity Directory Service and User Management platform. You will leverage AWS, CDK, and .NET to shape next-generation security and identity capabilities, influencing leaders and architects across the organization.

You will drive high-impact architecture, tackle security and scalability challenges, and build end-to-end features with AI integrations while