Senior AI Field Engineer — Edge & Multi-Cloud

Palo Alto Networks; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 147,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS. You will be embedded with customer teams, writing production code and designing low-latency topologies to ship secure workloads.

Responsibilities include building plugins, deploying with Terraform/Kubernetes, and guiding architectural reviews while collaborating with product and core SWE to turn enterprise patterns into platform features.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI or related field, or 7+ years of experience.
• Experience building production-grade software with Python/Go/TypeScript/C++.
• Experience with REST, gRPC, WebSockets and API gateways (Envoy, Kong).
• Cloud native infra: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform across AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Security, zero-trust, OIDC/OAuth2 understanding.
• Ability to interface with CIOs/CISOs and influence roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Write production-grade code to integrate Prisma AIRS with microservices.
• Develop middleware/plugins for identity-aware policies and telemetry.
• Deploy via Terraform/Helm/Kubernetes and build SDK wrappers.
• Lead ADRs and partner with Product to turn patterns into features.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

C++

REST APIs

WebSockets

LLM orchestration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI or related field

Tools

Envoy

Kong

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

LangChain

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS. You will be embedded with customer teams, writing production code and designing low-latency topologies to ship secure workloads.

Responsibilities include building plugins, deploying with Terraform/Kubernetes, and guiding architectural reviews while collaborating with product and core SWE to turn enterprise patterns into platform features.