Palo Alto Networks
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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 the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday – from disruptive innovation and collaboration to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and respect each employee as a unique individual. Our development and personal wellbeing programs give you choice in how you are supported, including a flexible benefits spending account, mental and financial health resources, and personalized learning opportunities.
Job Description
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. In response, 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.
Our Stack
Our platform is built on a modern, cloud-native foundation centered around Kubernetes. We value deep expertise in a few core areas and a strong desire to master the technologies that drive our platform forward.
Cloud & Orchestration
GCP, Kubernetes, AWS, Containerization tools
CI/CD & GitOps
GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), Helm, Terraform, Cue
Languages & Core Tooling
Python (modern, typed), Go (highly desired), BASH, rego
We actively leverage AI Coding Assistants like Claude to boost productivity.
This role is located at our dynamic Seattle WA office – in‑office 3 days a week. This is not a remote role.
Your Impact
As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization. You won’t just be operating infrastructure; you will be building the platform that defines how we build and ship software. Your impact will be measured by your ability to: Act as a force multiplier by building and evangelizing a cohesive Internal Developer Platform that simplifies, builds safety into, and accelerates the path to production. Drive the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery across the organization. Leveraging the Argo suite, you will provide safe, automated, and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust and directly improve quality and velocity. Elevate the organization’s cloud‑native expertise by setting the standard for Kubernetes and GCP best practices. Your guidance and patterns will influence the architecture, reliability, and security of core products. Architect and operate a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure that forms the resilient foundation of Prisma AIRS. Reduce engineering toil and eliminate entire classes of problems through automation, self‑service tooling, and observability frameworks that give time back to every engineer. Qualifications
Innate sense of ownership and a collaborative spirit. Highly technical, self‑motivated contributor who sees projects through from idea to production and is a central point of collaboration for multiple teams. Superpower for debugging. Deep command of engineering fundamentals – from Linux internals and networking to application performance – that allows systematic diagnosis and solving of problems in complex distributed systems. Mastery of Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Platforms. Extensive, hands‑on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure declaratively. Expert in modern IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, Crossplane/ACK/KCC) with deep proficiency with a major cloud provider, ideally GCP. Deep expertise in the cloud‑native ecosystem. Thorough understanding of Kubernetes in large‑scale production environments and fluent in building automation and platform tooling using modern, typed Python. Experience with Go is a significant plus. 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 (for non‑sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147,000 – $185,000 per year. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here. We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com. 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 (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
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As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization. You won’t just be operating infrastructure; you will be building the platform that defines how we build and ship software. Your impact will be measured by your ability to: Act as a force multiplier by building and evangelizing a cohesive Internal Developer Platform that simplifies, builds safety into, and accelerates the path to production. Drive the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery across the organization. Leveraging the Argo suite, you will provide safe, automated, and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust and directly improve quality and velocity. Elevate the organization’s cloud‑native expertise by setting the standard for Kubernetes and GCP best practices. Your guidance and patterns will influence the architecture, reliability, and security of core products. Architect and operate a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure that forms the resilient foundation of Prisma AIRS. Reduce engineering toil and eliminate entire classes of problems through automation, self‑service tooling, and observability frameworks that give time back to every engineer. Qualifications
Innate sense of ownership and a collaborative spirit. Highly technical, self‑motivated contributor who sees projects through from idea to production and is a central point of collaboration for multiple teams. Superpower for debugging. Deep command of engineering fundamentals – from Linux internals and networking to application performance – that allows systematic diagnosis and solving of problems in complex distributed systems. Mastery of Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Platforms. Extensive, hands‑on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure declaratively. Expert in modern IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, Crossplane/ACK/KCC) with deep proficiency with a major cloud provider, ideally GCP. Deep expertise in the cloud‑native ecosystem. Thorough understanding of Kubernetes in large‑scale production environments and fluent in building automation and platform tooling using modern, typed Python. Experience with Go is a significant plus. 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 (for non‑sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147,000 – $185,000 per year. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here. We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com. 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 (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
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