Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Security Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a skilled backend engineer to join the Advanced URL Filtering (Internet Security) Infrastructure and Platform Team.

You will build and maintain threat research systems for customer-facing products and internal use, leveraging big data and ML techniques to analyze URLs and defend against threats. You will collaborate with data scientists, security researchers, and product managers to translate requirements into scalable backend services, data pipelines, and

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years backend experience.
• Proficiency in Go or Java; Python proficiency.
• Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Cloud platform experience (GCP/AWS/Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes.
• CI/CD, performance tuning, and scaling.
• Linux shell scripting and debugging.
• Experience with MongoDB or MySQL; schema/index design.
• Big data/ETL with Spark is a plus.
• Knowledge of ML fundamentals and web tech (JS/TS).
• Familiarity with AI coding tools and agent-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain threat research systems for customer-facing products and internal infrastructures.
• Work with Product Managers to collect requirements, draft designs, and develop specifications.
• Implement solutions following software development guidelines and best practices.
• Collaborate with SREs on production release/deployment and monitoring.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

MongoDB

MySQL

Spark

Machine Learning

JavaScript

TypeScript

AI coding tools

Agent workflows

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a skilled backend engineer to join the Advanced URL Filtering (Internet Security) Infrastructure and Platform Team.

You will build and maintain threat research systems for customer-facing products and internal use, leveraging big data and ML techniques to analyze URLs and defend against threats. You will collaborate with data scientists, security researchers, and product managers to translate requirements into scalable backend services, data pipelines, and