Principal Backend Engineer for AI Security Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer for the Prisma AIRS team. You will design, develop, and optimize robust backend systems powering our AI security platform. Lead features end-to-end, ensuring production-readiness and scalability across services.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across product and infrastructure teams, and continuously evolve the platform to meet changing AI security needs. Join us in building secure, enterprise-grade solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building large distributed systems and web services in the cloud.
• Hands-on programming in Java, Go, Python or equivalent languages.
• Experience with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, Spanner, BigQuery, MongoDB, etc.).
• Experience with microservices (Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless).
• Familiar with CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable software products for AI security platforms.
• Own new features from definition to production readiness and testing.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to shape AI security offerings.
• Operate production services for hundreds of enterprise customers with high reliability.
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold high development standards.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Postgres

MySQL

BigQuery

MongoDB

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer for the Prisma AIRS team. You will design, develop, and optimize robust backend systems powering our AI security platform. Lead features end-to-end, ensuring production-readiness and scalability across services.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across product and infrastructure teams, and continuously evolve the platform to meet changing AI security needs. Join us in building secure, enterprise-grade solutions.