Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Staff Software Engineer (AI Platform)
$154K–$249K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems; 2+ years building AI software, integrating LLMs, or developing production predictive analytics.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Will consider applicants with current work authorization who need a transfer of an existing H-1B visa. Not currently considering applicants who need new visa sponsorship, including new H-1B petitions, or those in OPT/CPT status who will require future sponsorship.
About the job
Designs and builds production-ready AI applications, autonomous agents, LLM integrations, and predictive analytics for Palo Alto Networks’ product ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Architect AI-driven applications, agentic workflows, and custom LLM integrations.
- Build autonomous agents and predictive analytics for operational automation, monitoring, and diagnostics.
- Develop AI-enabled observability, security, auditing, and root-cause-analysis tools, partnering with Core AI/ML teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building AI software, integrating LLMs, or developing predictive analytics in production applications.
- Experience with LLM APIs and SDKs, practical prompt engineering, and agent framework development.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, TypeScript (Node.js), or Go; knowledge of software architecture, asynchronous programming, distributed systems, and performance tuning.
Nice to have
- Multi-cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-Code experience; Kubernetes, service meshes, or cloud-native networking knowledge.
- Linux internals, SRE, AI-enabled CI/CD pipelines, or relevant Kubernetes/cloud architecture certifications.
Pay
$153,700.00 - $248,600.00/yr USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Go, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Kubernetes
AI focus
Builds autonomous agents, LLM integrations, predictive analytics, AI-driven observability and security tools, and automated root-cause-analysis workflows.
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