Sr Staff Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS Backend)

Palo Alto Networks•Seattle, WA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform, Prisma AIRS. 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. 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 shared services team, specifically focused on platform applications. 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. This is not a remote role.

Requirements

3-8 +/- years of experience working as a back-end engineer
Expertise in at least one strongly typed programming language (Go (preferred!), or Java, C#, C++) or modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc)
Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
Experience writing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests
Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases
Prior On call troubleshooting abilities.
Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved

Nice To Haves

Deep knowledge in at least one the public cloud (GCP, AWS, or OCI)
Experience with infra tools (docker, kubernetes, terraform) and CI/CD pipelines, GitLab or GitHub
Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example)
Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support
Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
Experience with the agile process and working with software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale
Startups or security company or cloud company experience is a plus
BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure software engineers to ensure the success of the Prisma AIRS organization
Design and build innovative and solid 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.
Design, build, and operate production security services
Develop expertise in new technologies