Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer Software (Device Security - Generative AI Back End)
$156K–$253K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8~12+ years of software development experience; 7+ years with a listed cloud platform and large-scale distributed serving systems; 7~10 years with NodeJS/JAVA/Python.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Eligible for immigration sponsorship: Yes.
About the job
Build scalable cloud services and real-time analytics for Device Security products, including IoT integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and generative AI-enabled developer and security capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design and implement scalable, high-performance services, APIs, and third-party integrations for Device Security and IoT products.
- Build event connectors, inspectors, and data pipelines for device identification, alerts, status tracking, cloud storage, and analytics.
- Integrate generative AI to automate routine coding and improve developer productivity, and create AI-powered security insights and threat visualizations.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
- 7+ years working with Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or MS Azure, and 7+ years building large-scale distributed serving systems.
- 7~10 years of software development experience with NodeJS/JAVA/Python.
- Experience with Linux and Shell scripting; good communication and problem-solving skills.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of MongoDB, Kafka/firehose, Redis, Spark/Spark Streaming/Spark SQL, Redshift, or other data warehousing solutions; network domain knowledge.
- Experience building real-time analytics or machine learning systems; SSO integration or Graph Data Lakehouse experience.
Pay
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr (USD; base salary)
Tools
Amazon AWS, Google GCP, MS Azure, NodeJS, JAVA, Python, Linux, Shell scripting
AI focus
Integrate generative AI for routine coding automation and developer productivity, and use AI to provide proactive security insights and threat visualizations.
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