Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Principal Software Software (Prisma AIRS Runtime Security)
$184K–$297K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 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 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-as-a-service offerings and production-ready backend architectures.
- Design large-scale systems and integrations, while optimizing throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
- Set engineering practices, including agentic coding and spec-driven development, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or 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 exceptional programming skills in Python or Golang.
- Track record designing microservices architectures and deploying high-throughput, globally scaled APIs in production.
- Experience with cloud-native solutions, databases, Kubernetes, enterprise CI/CD, observability, and agentic workflows or multi-agent orchestration.
Nice to have
- GCP
Pay
$183,600.00 - $297,000.00/yr (base salary; USD)
Tools
Python, Golang, GCP, Kubernetes, GitLab, ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus
AI focus
Architects AI Runtime Security systems, including model-serving infrastructure and agentic workflows, tool-use pipelines, or multi-agent orchestrations.
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