AI-First Senior Staff Engineer — Scalable Platform Leader

Palo Alto Networks; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive architectural evolution and AI-first development across our platform. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, design scalable interfaces, and establish secure, resilient patterns.

You will apply AI tooling with careful peer reviews to prevent hallucinations and defects, while simplifying complex workflows. Collaboration with product, design, and engineering will translate requirements into robust code and faster delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise-grade applications using the MEAN stack.
• Proven AWS architecture, deployment, and operations experience.
• Expertise in prompt and context engineering for AI tools in software development.
• Ability to handle fluid requirements and align with business goals.
• Strong API design and long-term scalability trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Drive End-to-End Feature Delivery: Take complete ownership of complex, end-to-end feature delivery by breaking down work, managing commitments, and systematically reducing cycle time and rework.

Skills

MEAN stack

AWS

AI tooling & output verification

Navigating ambiguity

System design & extensibility

Production & operational ownership

Cross-functional influence

Tools

TypeScript

Jest

Playwright

JMeter

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive architectural evolution and AI-first development across our platform. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, design scalable interfaces, and establish secure, resilient patterns.

You will apply AI tooling with careful peer reviews to prevent hallucinations and defects, while simplifying complex workflows. Collaboration with product, design, and engineering will translate requirements into robust code and faster delivery.