Remote Senior Principal IAM Platform Architect (Backend)

Palo Alto Networks

California (MO)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a senior IAM Platform Engineer for its Chronosphere-backed platform. The role leads architectural direction for access control, mentors engineers, and ships reliable, secure capabilities across cloud environments.

You will own critical IAM components, collaborate with product teams, and drive adoption in a distributed, security-focused environment. Responsibilities include setting strategy, maintaining code in Go, and ensuring robust security, scalability, and

Qualifications

A track record of delivering on ambitious IAM/platform initiatives.
Ability to navigate ambiguity with collaboration and iterative execution.
Experience owning multi-team initiatives from inception to delivery.
Experience with large-scale distributed systems and balancing reliability, security, and cost.

Responsibilities

Lead design of granular access control framework that scales across teams.
Negotiate priorities and dependencies across multiple teams.
Ship and maintain platform capabilities in Go, on Kubernetes across AWS and GCP.
Ensure production reliability by monitoring SLOs and addressing security risks.
Reduce toil through architectural improvements and tooling.
Collaborate with product managers to align customer needs with roadmap.
Balance investment level with a steady cadence of customer requests.
Engage partner teams early to stay aligned with organizational needs.
Mentor engineers and help grow the IAM platform team.