Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS Backend - Runtime Security)
$156K–$253K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years with a bachelor's degree, or 8+ years with a master's degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or a Master's degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems for Prisma AIRS Runtime Security, optimizing performance and integrating AI detection and model-serving infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise security services and resilient backend architectures.
- Design large-scale systems and improve throughput, latency, efficiency, and resource use.
- Set engineering practices and mentor engineers, including implementing agentic coding workflows and spec-driven development.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience, or a Master's degree with 8+ years of experience.
- Expertise in scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and strong programming skills in Python or Golang.
- Experience designing enterprise microservices and deploying high-throughput, globally scaled APIs to meet strict SLOs.
- Hands-on experience architecting, building, and deploying agentic workflows, tool-use pipelines, or multi-agent orchestrations.
Nice to have
- GCP experience is preferred.
- Experience with cloud-native solutions, relational/NoSQL databases, Kubernetes, GitLab, ArgoCD, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Pay
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr USD base salary
Tools
Python, Golang, GCP, Kubernetes, GitLab, ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus
AI focus
Develops AI runtime security systems and integrates model-serving infrastructure; the role also involves architecting and deploying agentic workflows, tool-use pipelines, or multi-agent orchestrations.
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