Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (Customer Engineering, Prisma AIRS)

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Customer Engineering, Prisma AIRS) to embed with customer teams, write production-grade Python/Go/TypeScript, and help deploy Prisma AIRS across multi-cloud environments.

You will lead architecture reviews with Principal Engineers and CISOs, translate customer patterns into reusable reference architectures, and act as Tier-3 for live production systems, with opportunities for RSUs and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• Hands-on developer with systems-architecture experience.
• Experience embedding with customer engineering teams.
• Familiar with multi-cloud deployments and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture reviews with Principal Engineers and CISOs.
• Provide Tier-3 support for live production Prisma AIRS systems.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Hands-on developer/systems-architect embedded with customer engineering teams deploying Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto's AI-runtime security platform. Write production Python/Go/TypeScript to integrate with microservices and multi-cloud meshes, build identity-aware policy and prompt-security middleware, automate deploys with Terraform/Helm/Kubernetes, and act as tier-3 for live production systems. Lead architecture reviews with Principal Engineers and CISOs; convert customer patterns into reusable reference architectures. Base salary $147,000–$237,500 plus RSUs and bonus. Verified on Palo Alto Networks' careers site.

The first major cybersecurity vendor to put an FDE on AI-runtime security — you embed with customer CISOs, ship low-latency gateway topologies across OpenAI/Anthropic/Bedrock/local vLLM, and upstream your own plugins straight into the core Prisma AIRS engine. Proof the FDE motion has reached security, where the buyer is the CISO, not the CTO.

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (Customer Engineering, Prisma AIRS) at Palo Alto Networks. Location: Santa Clara / New York / Plano. Compensation: $147K–$238K. Posted August 5, 2026.