Software Engineer

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  US - Massachusetts, Newton

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Cyber Ark, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. Cyber Ark’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere.

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We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the evolution of a large Angular application at the heart of our Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) experience. While this role centers on frontend and UX architecture, it is grounded in end‑to‑end systems thinking—making UI decisions with a clear understanding of APIs, data models, performance, security, privacy, and operational constraints typical of multi‑tenant enterprise SaaS.

You will act as a technical and cultural force multiplier: shaping frontend direction, mentoring engineers, and partnering across Product, Design, Security, and Backend teams to deliver a modern, accessible, and secure experience that scales.

• Lead Angular modernization: migrate toward modern Angular idioms and capabilities (e.g., standalone components, signals, typed forms, modern control flow), improving component design, reusability, and architectural clarity.
• Own frontend architecture: establish durable patterns for state management (e.g., NgRx or equivalent), data flow, dependency injection, and module boundaries that make change safe and fast.
• Raise the bar on quality: improve testability (Jest/Testing Library), end‑to‑end reliability (Playwright/Cypress), performance (Core Web Vitals, bundle strategy, SSR/ISR where appropriate), and accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) through repeatable engineering practices.
• Partner across the stack: collaborate with backend engineers to shape API contracts (REST/Graph
  
  QL), pagination/streaming strategies, error models, and performance SLAs; ensure UI architecture reflects real system behavior and scale.
• Operationalize the frontend: champion observability (Open Telemetry/logging), feature flags, release health, error budgets, and progressive delivery in CI/CD to keep quality high while shipping quickly.
• Mentor and uplevel: lead design reviews and architecture discussions; coach engineers on Angular, testing, performance, accessibility, and security; help evolve our design system and UX maturity.
• Drive alignment: build trust through clear communication, lightweight RFCs, and collaboration with product managers and designers; influence without authority.
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Deep Angular experience: significant experience building and maintaining complex Angular applications in production, including modernization of long‑lived codebases with incremental, low‑disruption change.

Modern frontend architecture POV: strong opinions—loosely held—on component composition, state management, data fetching, error handling, and performance optimization for large enterprise apps.

Systems thinker: comfortable reasoning across layers (frontend, APIs, data, identity, observability, operations) to make trade‑offs explicit and decisions durable.

Security mindset: practical understanding of secure web app development (OWASP Top 10, CSP, SSRF/CSRF mitigations, input validation) and how UX can reinforce Zero Trust and Least Privilege.

Quality and accessibility: track record improving accessibility and performance in ways that scale with the team; familiarity with WCAG conformance and automated tooling.

Collaboration & communication: clear communicator who enjoys mentoring, facilitating design sessions, and influencing outcomes across teams.

Experience with Identity & Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), IGA, secrets management, or…