Lead Software Engineer, AI Security Data Platform Backend

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 156,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking innovative engineers to design state-of-the-art data platform systems and high-performance serving architectures for AI security products. You’ll own critical data workflows and collaborate across multi-functional teams.

Join our AIRS data platform team in California to build scalable data platforms, enable real‑time analytics, and ship solutions that solve real-world cyber threats with impact and scale.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 8–10 years software development experience.
• 8+ years of working experience with Google GCP.
• 8+ years of experience building large-scale distributed serving system.
• 8–10 years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python.
• Experience with Linux and Shell scripting.
• Good communication skills
• Great problem-solving skills
• Dev experiences of SQL database, Kafka, pub/sub, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing database solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed data platform as the center of AI security products.
• Design and implement the highly scalable and high performance data query services to support AI security products.
• Design and implement a framework for self service of data jobs with platform support of monitoring, scheduling and error handling.
• Design and implement a framework for self service of streaming data and sync data among different data storage.

Skills

NodeJS

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Linux/Shell scripting

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Kafka

Redshift

Spark/Spark Streaming

SQL databases

Redis

Pub/Sub

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking innovative engineers to design state-of-the-art data platform systems and high-performance serving architectures for AI security products. You’ll own critical data workflows and collaborate across multi-functional teams.

Join our AIRS data platform team in California to build scalable data platforms, enable real‑time analytics, and ship solutions that solve real-world cyber threats with impact and scale.