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Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Summary
Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team - We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity.
Your Career
As a Sr Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test.
Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.
You’re hands-on and comfortable writing code. You keep up with best practices and have a breadth of experience with different languages and frameworks. You’re passionate about code quality and automation. You're comfortable driving the implementation and adoption of new frameworks, tools and technologies. You’re comfortable crafting robust distributed systems that achieve both short and long-term business goals. You have the ability to articulate a clear technical vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
- Design and implement real-time security services to our customers
- Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
- Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
- Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
- Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native solutions
- Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
- Mentoring junior developers
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 5+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
- Hands-on, software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems
- Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang
- Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes
- Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions
- Experience in leading and doing projects end to end
- Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
- Experience with data infrastructure platforms
- Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
- Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
- Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
- Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to using AI tools and technologies for productivity and building AI agents
- Knowledge of AI/ML pipelines, Data Science principles, and related technologies.
- Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal.
- Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
- Experience with REST API design, development, and consumption, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
$126,000.00 - $204,500.00/yr
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Summary
Threat Prevention and Cloud Service Infrastructure team - We are at the core of our products and deliver the best of security services in the cloud to prevent cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we, and the whole industry, think about cybersecurity.
Your Career
As a Sr Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in the design and implementation of our Threat Intelligence Services for public and private cloud features. Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle from definition, design, through implementation and test.
Bring your software engineering expertise to work on our cutting edge malware detection platform, WildFire. Participate in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture as we transform it by using cloud native solutions on GCP. Lead the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions.
You’re hands-on and comfortable writing code. You keep up with best practices and have a breadth of experience with different languages and frameworks. You’re passionate about code quality and automation. You're comfortable driving the implementation and adoption of new frameworks, tools and technologies. You’re comfortable crafting robust distributed systems that achieve both short and long-term business goals. You have the ability to articulate a clear technical vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems
- Design and implement real-time security services to our customers
- Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
- Collaborate closely with the product managers, architects and dev-ops to achieve quality releases
- Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-release while maintaining performance and scalability requirements
- Play a key role design/re-design by using cloud native solutions
- Promote best practices such as design reviews, code reviews, secure coding and performance tuning
- Mentoring junior developers
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 5+ years or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
- Hands-on, software engineer implementing massively scalable platforms leveraging cloud technologies and distributed systems
- Advanced level programming in Python, GoLang
- Experience designing microservices architecture using containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes
- Proven experience building and maintaining high-scale server-side applications on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure and designing cloud-native solutions
- Experience in leading and doing projects end to end
- Exposure to using configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
- Experience with data infrastructure platforms
- Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
- Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
- Strong believer of automation test and strive for higher code coverage
- Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to using AI tools and technologies for productivity and building AI agents
- Knowledge of AI/ML pipelines, Data Science principles, and related technologies.
- Experience with multi-threads and multi-processes achieving a common goal.
- Knowledge of the DevOps workflow
- Experience with REST API design, development, and consumption, along with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
$126,000.00 - $204,500.00/yr
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
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Align your cloud certifications before applying
Palo Alto Networks evaluates Cloud Engineers on platform-specific depth, not breadth. Certifications in AWS, Azure, or GCP paired with Prisma Cloud or SASE familiarity signal hands-on fit for the security-focused cloud work their teams actually do.
Target roles tied to Prisma Cloud explicitly
Cloud Engineer postings at Palo Alto Networks are not uniform. Roles aligned to Prisma Cloud or their cloud security platform move through hiring faster and are more consistently tied to sponsorship approval, so filtering by product area sharpens your targeting.
Use Migrate Mate to surface open Cloud Engineer roles
Palo Alto Networks posts Cloud Engineer positions across multiple teams and locations. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for open roles where the company is actively sponsoring visas, so you're not applying blind to postings that don't include international candidates.
Confirm LCA coverage for your specific work location
Palo Alto Networks operates across several U.S. offices and allows some remote work. Your Labor Condition Application filed with DOL must cover the worksite where you'll actually perform duties, so clarify your assigned location before the petition is submitted.
Prepare your specialty occupation documentation early
USCIS increasingly scrutinizes H-1B petitions for Cloud Engineer roles by examining whether the position genuinely requires a specific bachelor's degree field. Gather a job description, your official transcripts, and any advanced credentials before the offer stage, not after.
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Does Palo Alto Networks sponsor H-1B visas for Cloud Engineers?
Yes, Palo Alto Networks sponsors H-1B visas for Cloud Engineer roles. The company has an established process for petitioning USCIS on behalf of international candidates, including both cap-subject filings for new H-1B holders and transfers for candidates already in H-1B status with another employer. If you're mid-OPT, they can also support the transition.
How do I apply for Cloud Engineer jobs at Palo Alto Networks?
You can find and apply for Cloud Engineer roles at Palo Alto Networks through their careers portal. To filter specifically for positions open to visa sponsorship, Migrate Mate lists current openings at Palo Alto Networks where international candidates are being considered, saving you time on roles that won't move forward with sponsorship.
Which visa types does Palo Alto Networks commonly use for Cloud Engineers?
Palo Alto Networks sponsors H-1B, E-3, and TN visas for Cloud Engineers, along with supporting F-1 OPT and F-1 CPT for students earlier in their career. For longer-term pathways, the company also sponsors EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card petitions, which typically begin through the PERM labor certification process after an initial period of employment.
What qualifications does Palo Alto Networks expect for Cloud Engineer roles?
Palo Alto Networks generally looks for Cloud Engineers with a bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a closely related field, combined with practical experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. For H-1B purposes, the degree field must align with the specific role. Familiarity with Prisma Cloud, Kubernetes, or network security architecture strengthens a candidacy significantly.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for Cloud Engineers at Palo Alto Networks?
Timeline depends on visa type. H-1B cap-subject petitions have an April filing window with an October 1 start date, so planning 6 to 12 months ahead is necessary. E-3 and TN visas can move faster, sometimes within weeks of a signed offer. USCIS premium processing is available for H-1B petitions and reduces the adjudication window to 15 business days.
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