Principal Software Engineer, Prisma AIRS Runtime Security

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security team in Santa Clara, CA. You will shape the future of AI security by partnering with executives, product, UX, ML, and engineering to architect and deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

You will drive architectural standards, enable high-throughput integrations, and mentor engineers to foster technical excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of industry experience, or a Master's degree with 8+ years.
• Deep domain expertise in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with Python or Golang.
• Proven track record designing enterprise-grade microservices architectures and high-throughput APIs.
• Experience architecting cloud-native solutions (GCP), databases (SQL/NoSQL), and full-stack observability (Grafana/Prometheus).
• Ability to drive consensus across multiple teams, solve ambiguous problems, and mentor engineers.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, tool-use pipelines, or multi-agent orchestrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, SRE, ML, and Quality Engineering to deliver enterprise-grade security services.
• Translate product and security vision into resilient backend architectures.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive performance optimizations at scale.
• Advocate modern engineering practices and model-driven development within the team.
• Architect large-scale enterprise systems with model-serving infrastructure and seamless integrations.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers to foster technical excellence.

Skills

Python

Golang

Microservices

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree

Tools

GitLab

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security team in Santa Clara, CA. You will shape the future of AI security by partnering with executives, product, UX, ML, and engineering to architect and deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

You will drive architectural standards, enable high-throughput integrations, and mentor engineers to foster technical excellence across the organization.