Platform Engineer - AI Agent Orchestration & Backend

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to build the core systems powering Console's AI agents.

You will work where backend engineering, distributed systems, and agentic AI intersect, owning execution and orchestration infrastructure for autonomous workflows across enterprise apps. You'll tackle challenges in agent orchestration, state management, and reliability, shaping an AI-native platform architecture as we scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering.
• 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 autonomy.
• Product-minded, with instincts for designing simple, extensible systems that solve complex engineering challenges.
• Comfortable collaborating across engineering disciplines and taking ownership of technically challenging problems beyond scope.
• An AI-native builder who explores emerging AI technologies and development tools.

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 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 engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Asynchronous processing

Architecture design

Autonomy

AI-native

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to build the core systems powering Console's AI agents.

You will work where backend engineering, distributed systems, and agentic AI intersect, owning execution and orchestration infrastructure for autonomous workflows across enterprise apps. You'll tackle challenges in agent orchestration, state management, and reliability, shaping an AI-native platform architecture as we scale.