Senior Principal AI Runtime Security Engineer

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; California; Hybrid; USD 184.000 - 297.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr Principal Software Engineer for the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security team in California. You will shape enterprise-grade AI security, partnering with product, UX, ML, and cross-functional engineering to architect scalable solutions.

You will mentor teams, lead architectural design, and drive performance optimizations across backend services and model serving infrastructure, delivering high-throughput, low-latency security offerings at scale.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience, or a Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience
• Deep domain expertise in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, with exceptional programming skills in Python or Golang.
• Proven track record of designing enterprise-wide Microservices architectures, building, and deploying high-throughput, globally scaled APIs to meet strict SLOs, maximize throughput, and reduce compute costs in production.
• Broad experience architecting cloud-native solutions (GCP preferred), relational/NoSQL databases, container management (Kubernetes), enterprise CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), and full-stack observability (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Demonstrated ability to drive consensus across multi-team boundaries, solve ambiguous technical problems, and mentor senior engineering talent.
• Hands-on experience architecting, building, and deploying complex Agentic workflows, tool-use pipelines, or multi-agent orchestrations

Aufgaben

• Lead cross-functional with Product Management, SRE, ML, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new, enterprise-grade security as a service offerings in a timely fashion.
• Tackle complex, ambiguous technical challenges across system boundaries, translating high-level product and security vision into resilient, production-ready backend architectures.
• Proactively identify technical bottlenecks and scaling opportunities, driving continuous performance and efficiency optimizations to maximize throughput, lower latency, and streamline resource utilization at scale.
• Evangelize and implement modern engineering best practices, including agentic coding workflows and spec-driven development within the team.
• Lead the architectural design and execution of large-scale enterprise systems with model serving infrastructure, ensuring seamless, scalable integration across backend services and partner engineering services.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning within the team.

Kenntnisse

Python

Golang

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

GCP

Jobbeschreibung

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr Principal Software Engineer for the Prisma AIRS Runtime Security team in California. You will shape enterprise-grade AI security, partnering with product, UX, ML, and cross-functional engineering to architect scalable solutions.

You will mentor teams, lead architectural design, and drive performance optimizations across backend services and model serving infrastructure, delivering high-throughput, low-latency security offerings at scale.