Sr. Principal Software Software (Prisma AIRS Runtime Security)
About The Position
As a Sr. Principal Software Engineer on the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security team, you will serve as a technical visionary and strategic leader shaping the future of AI security. You will partner with executive leadership, product management, UX designers, ML engineers, and cross-functional engineering teams to conceptualize, architect, and deliver enterprise-grade solutions for the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security product. You will lead innovation in the rapidly evolving field of AI Runtime Security, going beyond feature development to drive performance and efficiency improvements that enable high-throughput integrations across AI detection infrastructure and partner engineering teams. You will set architectural standards, promote technical excellence, and mentor engineers across the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 10 or more years of relevant industry experience, or a master's degree and 8 or more years of experience.
- Deep expertise designing, building, and operating highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Exceptional programming skills in Python or Golang.
- Track record designing enterprise-wide microservices architectures and building and deploying high-throughput, globally scaled APIs that meet strict SLOs, maximize throughput, and reduce production compute costs.
- Broad experience architecting cloud-native solutions, relational and NoSQL databases, container management, enterprise CI/CD, and full-stack observability.
- Ability to drive consensus across multi-team boundaries, solve ambiguous technical problems, and mentor senior engineering talent.
- Hands-on experience architecting, building, and deploying complex agentic workflows, tool-use pipelines, or multi-agent orchestrations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with GCP (preferred).
- Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab, ArgoCD, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional work with Product Management, SRE, ML, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver enterprise-grade security-as-a-service offerings on time.
- Address complex and ambiguous technical challenges across system boundaries, translating product and security vision into resilient, production-ready backend architectures.
- Identify technical bottlenecks and scaling opportunities, and drive performance and efficiency improvements to maximize throughput, lower latency, and optimize resource utilization at scale.
- Promote and implement modern engineering practices, including agentic coding workflows and spec-driven development.
- Lead the architectural design and execution of large-scale enterprise systems involving model-serving infrastructure, with scalable integration across backend and partner engineering services.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers and foster technical excellence and continuous learning.
Benefits
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are referenced in the job description, but specific benefits are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
