Senior Backend AI Integration Engineer (GenAI Security)

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

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Backend AI Software Integration Engineer to build a multi-tenant GenAI Security Platform that lets enterprises benchmark, red-team, and secure LLMs and agentic workflows. You will focus on backend development in Python, creating middleware APIs, data ingestion endpoints, and integration hooks across enterprise pipelines.

This senior role emphasizes async microservices, API gateways, security, and scalable architecture, with opportunities to work across cloud and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Software Engineering or Systems Integration with a backend focus.
• Production-level mastery of Python for asynchronous services and API frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise APIs (REST, gRPC) and API gateways like Envoy or Kong.
• Experience transforming data between disparate formats.
• Experience building robust middleware, webhooks, and retry logic.
• Practical experience integrating LLM APIs, vector storage, and agentic frameworks.
• Ability to create architecture blueprints and secure AI workloads.
• Strong testing practices using PyTest or unittest.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and collaboration.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance asynchronous Python microservices and databases.
• Develop API endpoints, webhook receivers, and data ingestion hooks for LLM prompts and logs.
• Create middleware logic and AI Gateway integrations with security controls and policy enforcement.
• Document technical architectures and integration blueprints for Prisma AIRS across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Engineer automated LLM probing pipelines and expose telemetry endpoints for dashboards.
• Provide onboarding materials and SDKs to accelerate partner integrations.
• Travel may be required.

Skills

Backend Python

API Development

gRPC & REST

Data Transformation

Middleware & Webhooks

AI Stack Integration

Security & Architecture

Testing (PyTest)

Communication

Education

BS/MS Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Envoy

Kong

LangChain

LlamaIndex

MCP

FastAPI

Flask

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Backend AI Software Integration Engineer to build a multi-tenant GenAI Security Platform that lets enterprises benchmark, red-team, and secure LLMs and agentic workflows. You will focus on backend development in Python, creating middleware APIs, data ingestion endpoints, and integration hooks across enterprise pipelines.

This senior role emphasizes async microservices, API gateways, security, and scalable architecture, with opportunities to work across cloud and