Staff Backend Engineer, AI-Powered Security Platform

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, and expand agentic capabilities within the Cortex platform. You will translate emerging LLM technology into robust, production-ready features, contributing to core frameworks and automation assets powering autonomous security workflows.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design and deploy cohesive automation capabilities, ensuring high performance, scalability,

Qualifications

• 3 to 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python programming; working knowledge of Go.
• Solid understanding of prompting techniques and context management.
• Hands-on experience with microservice architectures and system design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated release workflows.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and security-focused workflows.
• Telemetry, execution tracking, and observability tooling experience.
• Experience with Bash scripting and containerized build environments.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, efficient code addressing latency, context optimization, and determinism in production environments.
• Support automation infrastructure for agentic capabilities, enabling content publication to the platform.
• Establish and maintain automation execution pipelines for smooth software deliveries and quality governance.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design cohesive platform automation capabilities.

Skills

Python

Go

Prompting techniques

Context management

Microservice architectures

CI/CD pipelines

Bash scripting

Telemetry & observability

Tools

REST APIs

CI/CD tooling

Containerized build environments

Automation tooling

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, and expand agentic capabilities within the Cortex platform. You will translate emerging LLM technology into robust, production-ready features, contributing to core frameworks and automation assets powering autonomous security workflows.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design and deploy cohesive automation capabilities, ensuring high performance, scalability,