Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
$154K–$249K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 8+ years in Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Cloud FinOps; 2+ years building cloud resource management tools or AI/ML integrations.
- Visa sponsorship
- No immigration sponsorship; work visas will not be sponsored.
About the job
Build AI-driven, multi-cloud FinOps systems that analyze and automatically optimize cloud spending, especially for AI/ML workloads.
What you'll do
- Develop autonomous systems and agents to inspect, govern, and optimize AI/ML workloads and cloud infrastructure.
- Build closed-loop automation, IaC pipelines, and predictive models that identify and execute cost savings.
- Create telemetry platforms to measure unit economics and analyze usage, including GPU and LLM costs.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Cloud FinOps teams.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building software tools or AI/ML integrations for cloud resource management.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, ReAct, and TypeScript/Node.js; practical experience with LLM APIs, vector databases, and agentic frameworks.
- Experience with FinOps APIs across AWS, GCP, and Azure; Terraform and Pulumi; CI/CD; and closed-loop automation in multi-cloud environments.
Nice to have
- Kubernetes cost allocation tools such as Kubecost or OpenCost.
- Big-data querying with SQL, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
Pay
$153,700.00 - $248,600.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, LangChain, ADK, Python, ReAct, TypeScript/Node.js
AI focus
Build AI agents, autonomous optimization systems, and predictive machine learning models to manage AI/ML workloads and automate cloud cost savings.
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