Principal Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS Backend)
About The Position
With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. In response, Prisma AIRS delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join the Prisma AIRS Model Security team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in designing, developing, and optimizing robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems that power our cutting-edge AI security platform. This role is located at our dynamic downtown Seattle office, and in office 3 days a week.
Requirements
- Expertise in at least one programming language such as modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc), Go, Java, C#, or C++
- 8+ years experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
- Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Experience with a major cloud provider like GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana is a plus
- Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and convey ideas effectively
- Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
- Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.
- BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience
Responsibilities
- Design and build innovative, scalable software products to ensure our customers can use AI securely
- Own new features/functionality from start to finish.
- Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test.
- Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS Model Security
- Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch reliability, availability, and performance
- Develop expertise in new technologies and keep up with the rapidly evolving AI security landscape
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
