Senior Staff Software Engineer - Workload Identity (Golang)

Palo Alto Networks; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a experienced, curious and driven software engineer to join a growing area of our business. Workload Identity presents a huge opportunity to change the way that communication between services is secured.

It is also a challenging area which touches on many different foundational pieces of modern software development – networking, security, authorization, SDKs, cloud, Kubernetes and much more.

Qualifications

• Strong software development background including design, architecture, implementation, and testing.
• Knowledge of software development in Golang.
• Knowledge / experience in some/all of networking, security, cloud, Kubernetes, encryption, PKI, JWT, SPIFFE.
• Experience with Windows API a plus.
• Experience solving problems at enterprise scale, performance and quality standards.
• Experience in product development and working with product managers and field teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software to solve Workload Identity challenges, from prototyping to production, and including client and server.
• Develop, shape, lead, mentor, and collaborate with a close-knit team.
• Work with stakeholders (internal and external) to discuss ideas, present work that has been done, discuss priorities and options. In particular bringing the technical point of view on what is possible and what is easier or harder.

Skills

Golang

Software design

Kubernetes

Networking

Security

Cloud

Tools

Windows API

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a experienced, curious and driven software engineer to join a growing area of our business. Workload Identity presents a huge opportunity to change the way that communication between services is secured.

It is also a challenging area which touches on many different foundational pieces of modern software development – networking, security, authorization, SDKs, cloud, Kubernetes and much more.