Lead Platform Engineer, AI Agent Orchestration

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in California is seeking a Platform Engineer to build core backend and distributed systems powering Console's AI agents.

You will own execution and orchestration infrastructure, tackle asynchronous workflows, state management, and reliability, collaborating with AI and Product teams to shape an AI-native platform for enterprise scale. This high-ownership role requires deep systems knowledge, architectural judgment, and a product-minded approach, with a focus on scalable,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering, building and shipping production-grade software.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience designing scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed architectures.
• Experience building complex systems involving asynchronous processing, concurrency, state management, or distributed workflows.
• A track record of owning and shipping technically complex products or foundational systems from the ground up, ideally in startup or high-growth environments.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful technical tradeoffs, and execute with a high degree of autonomy.
• Product-minded, with strong instincts for designing simple, extensible systems that solve complex engineering challenges.
• Comfortable collaborating across engineering disciplines and taking ownership of technically challenging problems beyond your immediate scope.
• An AI-native builder who actively explores emerging AI technologies and development tools, with opinions on how they're changing the way software is designed, built, and operated.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core backend services and distributed systems that power Console's AI agents and enterprise workflows.
• Own the architecture and development of our agent execution and orchestration systems, enabling complex, asynchronous, and long-running workflows across enterprise applications.
• Build scalable systems for workflow state management, concurrency, fault tolerance, and recovery to ensure reliable agent execution in production.
• Develop shared APIs, execution frameworks, and reusable platform abstractions that accelerate the development of new agent capabilities.
• Build foundational integration and tool execution systems that enable agents to securely interact with enterprise applications and APIs.
• Partner closely with AI and Product Engineering to evolve our agentic architecture, translating emerging AI capabilities into scalable, production-grade systems.
• Drive technically complex projects from architecture through production, making thoughtful tradeoffs across performance, scalability, reliability, and development velocity.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

APIs design

Architecture

Autonomy

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in California is seeking a Platform Engineer to build core backend and distributed systems powering Console's AI agents.

You will own execution and orchestration infrastructure, tackle asynchronous workflows, state management, and reliability, collaborating with AI and Product teams to shape an AI-native platform for enterprise scale. This high-ownership role requires deep systems knowledge, architectural judgment, and a product-minded approach, with a focus on scalable,