Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Migration Tooling (Idira)

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

About the Role: Help Our Customers Journey to the Cloud
Moving complex enterprise workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud is one of the most critical—and daunting—challenges our customers face.
We build the tooling that makes that cloud journey seamless, predictable, and safe.
We are looking for a Windows Automation Software Engineer who wants to make a tangible impact on customer cloud transformations. We need an engineer with a true software engineering mindset who will help us:

- Accelerate customer cloud adoption: Build resilient, high-speed migration tooling that reliably moves workloads, data, and configurations to modern cloud environments (such as AWS).

- Guard customer security: Ensure our tooling adheres to strict enterprise security standards—least privilege, secure credential handling, and zero vulnerability exposure.
Our AI Culture: We are an AI-first engineering team. We don’t measure engineers by lines of boilerplate written by hand—we value engineers who understand Windows, cloud migrations, and software engineering deeply enough to guide, prompt, review, and safely accelerate development using AI.

Who Thrives in This Role?
We’re looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and taking ownership of existing systems.
You could be a great fit if you:

- Have a strong software engineering background and enjoy working with complex systems and codebases.

- Like investigating issues, debugging, identifying root causes, and turning findings into reliable solutions.

- Enjoy building automation tools and improving existing processes and code.

- Take ownership, work independently, and bring technical experience that others can learn from.

- Are comfortable working with Windows environments, PowerShell, SQL, and collaborating with global teams in English.

Required Qualifications

- Windows & PowerShell Foundations : Strong working knowledge of Windows operating systems and PowerShell internals (comfortable developing within the constraints of PowerShell 5.1 / .NET Framework).

- SQL Experience : Solid hands-on experience querying and working with relational databases. Comfortable writing queries, extracting or validating migration data, and interacting with databases programmatically via scripts.

- Clean Code Advocate : Passion for code readability, maintainability, and refactoring. You take pride in making complex code easy to read and understand.

- Testing Mindset : Strong grasp of automated testing principles (unit testing, mocking external dependencies, regression testing). While you don't need experience with a specific test runner, you know how reliable software should be tested and are eager to help us establish that practice.

- Security Discipline : Strong awareness of scripting and system security—avoiding credential leaks, preventing injection, and respecting locked-down enterprise environments.

- Enthusiasm for AI Tooling : Eager to work with Cursor (or experienced with AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code). You know how to provide proper context to AI and critically evaluate generated code.

- Collaboration & Git : Solid Git hygiene, branching strategies, and a collaborative approach to code reviews.

Nice-to-Have (Bonus Points)

- Cloud & AWS Knowledge

- Python: Experience using Python for automation, data transformation, or CLI tools.

- C# / .NET: Ability to write or inspect underlying .NET classes and compiled cmdlets when performance or low-level APIs require it.

- Enterprise Systems Experience: Working knowledge of Active Directory

Qualifications

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? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.