Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS Core Services Backend)
$156K–$253K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads technical direction and builds, operates, and optimizes scalable backend services for the Prisma AIRS AI security platform.
What you'll do
- Set architecture and technical direction for shared platform services; mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.
- Own product features end to end, from definition and design through implementation, testing, and production operation.
- Collaborate across product, frontend, design, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, high-performance security services.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and designing large distributed systems and cloud web services.
- Expertise in a strongly typed language (Go, Java, C#, or C++) or modern Python.
- Experience with a major cloud provider, SQL/NoSQL databases, queuing systems, microservices, and comprehensive tests.
- Experience leading large projects end to end, partnering with product managers and frontend engineers, and on-call troubleshooting.
Nice to have
- Go and GCP are preferred; graph database experience such as Neo4j is highly desired.
- Experience with infrastructure tools, CI/CD, observability, AI development tools, or cybersecurity.
Pay
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr (base salary; USD)
Tools
Go, Java, C#, C++, Python, GCP, AWS, Azure
AI focus
Builds backend services for an AI security platform that provides model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection; experience using AI tools to aid design and development is preferred.
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