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Sr Principal Engineer Software (AIRS AI Platform)
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Sr Principal Engineer Software (AIRS AI Platform)
Our Mission: At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission. Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity.
Overview With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world\'s most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. Prisma AIRS delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime.
Your Role We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Principal Engineer to join Prisma AIRS to play a crucial part in designing, developing, and optimizing robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems that power our cutting-edge AI security platform. This role is located at our dynamic Seattle, WA office and is not remote (in-office 3 days a week).
Your Impact
Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for multiple complex, highly distributed backend systems.
Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of innovative, cross-functional product initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure for a global enterprise.
Influence technical and product roadmaps by collaborating with senior leaders, product managers, and engineers across multiple organizations.
Serve as a hands-on technical leader, providing mentorship and raising the technical bar for other senior and staff-level engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
Pioneer and evangelize best practices for software development, operational excellence, and architectural patterns that impact entire product lines.
Qualifications Your Experience
Deep and proven experience (12+ years) architecting, building, and launching complex, large-scale distributed systems with significant business impact.
Expert-level proficiency in modern Python or at least one strongly typed programming language such as Go, Java, or C++.
Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) with a track record of building highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications.
Demonstrable experience operating mission-critical systems in production with stringent SLAs, including on-call leadership and incident response.
Extensive experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including a deep understanding of its internals and operational best practices.
Experience with machine learning (ML/MLOps), security, or data engineering would be a significant advantage.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive clarity and alignment on technical direction in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
Additional Information
The Team : Our team is at the forefront of AI security, building platforms that act as a secure gateway for machine learning pipelines. We focus on developing advanced model scanners and policy enforcers that integrate with modern ML workflows to identify and mitigate threats, securing the entire AI lifecycle from end to end.
Compensation Disclosure : The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary is expected to be between $212,000 - $240,000 per year, with potential base salary + commission target where applicable. Benefits may include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment : We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer; we celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Overview With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world\'s most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. Prisma AIRS delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime.
Your Role We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Principal Engineer to join Prisma AIRS to play a crucial part in designing, developing, and optimizing robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems that power our cutting-edge AI security platform. This role is located at our dynamic Seattle, WA office and is not remote (in-office 3 days a week).
Your Impact
Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for multiple complex, highly distributed backend systems.
Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of innovative, cross-functional product initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure for a global enterprise.
Influence technical and product roadmaps by collaborating with senior leaders, product managers, and engineers across multiple organizations.
Serve as a hands-on technical leader, providing mentorship and raising the technical bar for other senior and staff-level engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
Pioneer and evangelize best practices for software development, operational excellence, and architectural patterns that impact entire product lines.
Qualifications Your Experience
Deep and proven experience (12+ years) architecting, building, and launching complex, large-scale distributed systems with significant business impact.
Expert-level proficiency in modern Python or at least one strongly typed programming language such as Go, Java, or C++.
Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) with a track record of building highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications.
Demonstrable experience operating mission-critical systems in production with stringent SLAs, including on-call leadership and incident response.
Extensive experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including a deep understanding of its internals and operational best practices.
Experience with machine learning (ML/MLOps), security, or data engineering would be a significant advantage.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive clarity and alignment on technical direction in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
Additional Information
The Team : Our team is at the forefront of AI security, building platforms that act as a secure gateway for machine learning pipelines. We focus on developing advanced model scanners and policy enforcers that integrate with modern ML workflows to identify and mitigate threats, securing the entire AI lifecycle from end to end.
Compensation Disclosure : The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary is expected to be between $212,000 - $240,000 per year, with potential base salary + commission target where applicable. Benefits may include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment : We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer; we celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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