Palo Alto Networks
Senior Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity
$243K–$335K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 15 years with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years with a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years of experience in software engineering, or equivalent demonstrated technical impact.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree; or Master’s degree; or PhD. Equivalent demonstrated technical impact is also stated as an alternative.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads hands-on development and adoption of secure, measurable AI-agent workflows and AI-assisted modernization to improve software delivery and developer productivity across engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design and productionize AI agents and workflows across the software development lifecycle; integrate approved AI capabilities into developer platforms and tools.
- Modernize complex systems with AI-assisted analysis while establishing safe controls, evaluations, and operational practices for agentic workflows.
- Drive adoption, mentor engineers, measure outcomes, and share technical guidance internally and externally.
What they ask for
- 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience in software engineering field, or equivalent demonstrated technical impact.
- Experience operating at Senior Principal, Principal or equivalent scope across multiple teams or engineering domains.
- Practical experience with large language model APIs, tool-using agents, agent orchestration, context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and AI observability.
- Strong hands-on software-engineering skills and recent production-systems experience; experience integrating AI into developer workflows, engineering platforms, or enterprise applications.
Nice to have
- Experience introducing AI-assisted or agentic development workflows across a large or regulated enterprise.
- Experience implementing AI security controls, or familiarity with DORA and SPACE developer-productivity frameworks.
Pay
$243,000.00 - $335,000.00/yr USD base salary
Tools
large language model APIs, CI/CD, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, DORA, SPACE
AI focus
Builds, integrates, evaluates, and governs AI agents and AI-assisted workflows for software development and system modernization, with emphasis on security, reliability, observability, and measurable outcomes.
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