Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer (Console)
Office - USA - CA - Console Systems · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Build the backend platform and distributed systems that enable Console’s AI agents to execute complex workflows across enterprise applications.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services, distributed systems, APIs, and reusable platform abstractions for AI agents and enterprise workflows.
- Develop orchestration, execution, state management, concurrency, fault-tolerance, and recovery systems for reliable agent operation.
- Partner with AI and Product Engineering to take complex platform projects from architecture through production.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering, building and shipping production-grade software.
- Experience designing scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed architectures.
- Experience with complex systems involving asynchronous processing, concurrency, state management, or distributed workflows.
- Track record of owning and shipping technically complex products or foundational systems from the ground up.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic AI platforms, workflow orchestration engines, or distributed task execution systems.
- Familiarity with LLM application architectures, agent frameworks, tool calling, or AI evaluation and observability.
Tools
APIs, LLM
AI focus
Builds execution and orchestration infrastructure for AI agents that autonomously run complex workflows; involves agentic AI and collaboration with AI engineering.
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