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Sr Principal Engineer Software (AI Security)
Location: Seattle, WA (in-office 3 days a week). This is not a remote role. Overview With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Principal Engineer to join Prisma AIRS to design, develop, and optimize robust, scalable, high-performance backend systems that power our cutting-edge AI security platform. Your Career Our product delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection so customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation with a strong security posture from development through runtime. Your Impact
Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for multiple complex, highly distributed backend systems.
Lead end-to-end architecture and design of 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 organizations.
Serve as a hands-on technical leader, mentoring other senior and staff-level engineers and promoting engineering excellence.
Pioneer and evangelize best practices for software development, operational excellence, and architectural patterns across product lines.
Qualifications Your Experience
12+ years of 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 language such as Go, Java, or C++.
Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) with a track record of scalable, resilient cloud-native applications.
Experience operating mission-critical production systems with on-call leadership and incident response.
Extensive experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including internal knowledge of its operations.
Experience with machine learning (ML/MLOps), security, or data engineering is a plus.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, capable of explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to drive clarity on technical direction in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Additional Information The Team Our team focuses on AI security, building secure gateways for ML pipelines. We develop model scanners and policy enforcers that integrate with modern ML workflows to identify and mitigate threats, protecting the entire AI lifecycle from end to end. We welcome applicants excited by defending against model tampering, AI forensics, and runtime security challenges. Compensation Disclosure The compensation offered will depend on qualifications, experience, and location. For offers at the posted level, expected base salary range is $212,000 - $240,000/year, plus potential RSUs and a bonus. Benefits details are available here. Our Commitment We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or other protected characteristics. All information is kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Employment details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
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Location: Seattle, WA (in-office 3 days a week). This is not a remote role. Overview With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Principal Engineer to join Prisma AIRS to design, develop, and optimize robust, scalable, high-performance backend systems that power our cutting-edge AI security platform. Your Career Our product delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection so customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation with a strong security posture from development through runtime. Your Impact
Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for multiple complex, highly distributed backend systems.
Lead end-to-end architecture and design of 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 organizations.
Serve as a hands-on technical leader, mentoring other senior and staff-level engineers and promoting engineering excellence.
Pioneer and evangelize best practices for software development, operational excellence, and architectural patterns across product lines.
Qualifications Your Experience
12+ years of 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 language such as Go, Java, or C++.
Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) with a track record of scalable, resilient cloud-native applications.
Experience operating mission-critical production systems with on-call leadership and incident response.
Extensive experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including internal knowledge of its operations.
Experience with machine learning (ML/MLOps), security, or data engineering is a plus.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, capable of explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to drive clarity on technical direction in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Additional Information The Team Our team focuses on AI security, building secure gateways for ML pipelines. We develop model scanners and policy enforcers that integrate with modern ML workflows to identify and mitigate threats, protecting the entire AI lifecycle from end to end. We welcome applicants excited by defending against model tampering, AI forensics, and runtime security challenges. Compensation Disclosure The compensation offered will depend on qualifications, experience, and location. For offers at the posted level, expected base salary range is $212,000 - $240,000/year, plus potential RSUs and a bonus. Benefits details are available here. Our Commitment We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or other protected characteristics. All information is kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Employment details
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
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