Join Palo Alto Networks as a Principal Software Engineer on the Secure Workload Access (SWA) SaaS team in Sofia, Bulgaria. SWA enables secure authentication, authorization, and management of workloads across cloud-native, hybrid, and AI-driven environments, focusing on secure service-to-service communication, workload identity, workload visibility, and centralized policy-driven access management at enterprise scale. This on-site role involves designing, developing, and operating scalable cloud-native SaaS services for SWA; building secure systems for workload authentication, authorization, identity propagation, and centralized policy enforcement; driving architecture across backend services, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems; collaborating with product managers, architects, and customer-facing teams to shape product capabilities and priorities; implementing integrations with Kubernetes, cloud providers, identity systems, PKI solutions, and related cloud-native technologies; improving platform scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency; leading technical discussions, design reviews, and architectural decision-making; mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices; troubleshooting complex production issues and improving operational readiness; and helping shape the long-term vision and developer experience for the SWA platform. Qualifications include a strong software engineering background with architecture, design, implementation, testing, and operational ownership; experience building backend systems and distributed services i

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Principal Software Engineer on the Secure Workload Access (SWA) SaaS team in Sofia, Bulgaria. SWA enables secure authentication, authorization, and management of workloads across cloud-native, hybrid, and AI-driven environments, focusing on secure service-to-service communication, workload identity, workload visibility, and centralized policy-driven access management at enterprise scale. This on-site role involves designing, developing, and operating scalable cloud-native SaaS services for SWA; building secure systems for workload authentication, authorization, identity propagation, and centralized policy enforcement; driving architecture across backend services, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems; collaborating with product managers, architects, and customer-facing teams to shape product capabilities and priorities; implementing integrations with Kubernetes, cloud providers, identity systems, PKI solutions, and related cloud-native technologies; improving platform scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency; leading technical discussions, design reviews, and architectural decision-making; mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices; troubleshooting complex production issues and improving operational readiness; and helping shape the long-term vision and developer experience for the SWA platform. Qualifications include a strong software engineering background with architecture, design, implementation, testing, and operational ownership; experience building backend systems and distributed services i