Palo Alto Networks
Senior Security Architect (Information Security) - Bay Area
$152K–$246K
Santa Clara, United States of America · No · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in security engineering and/or security architecture.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes.
About the job
Defines and leads multi-cloud security architecture, threat modeling, and security-by-design practices for cloud platforms and products.
What you'll do
- Set security architecture patterns and drive Zero Trust and secure-by-design implementation across cloud environments.
- Own threat modeling and translate architectural risks into actionable items for leadership.
- Guide and mentor security engineers and lead cross-functional security implementations.
What they ask for
- Deep hands-on architecture expertise in at least one major cloud provider and working knowledge of others.
- Hands-on experience with Secure-by-Design, Privacy-by-Design, and Zero Trust principles.
- Experience executing complex threat models for microservices and serverless architectures.
- Proficiency in Python or Go and experience securing CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience securing AI/ML ecosystems, including LLM threats and defenses.
- Experience with CSPM, CWPP, or Container Security platforms and cloud well-architected frameworks.
Pay
$152,300.00 - $246,400.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, SAP, Python, Go, CI/CD
AI focus
Preferred experience securing AI/ML ecosystems, including understanding adversarial machine learning attacks and defenses for Large Language Models (LLMs).
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