Principal Software Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
AI Software Integration - Prisma AIRS
$126-204.5k
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Leading cybersecurity protections and software platform
Open for applications
Leading cybersecurity protections and software platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$126-204.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years in Software Engineering or Systems Integration with a primary emphasis on backend development and cloud security
- Backend Python Depth: Production-level mastery of Python for asynchronous backend services, API frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, or gRPC), and microservice architectures
- Core Software & API Development: Experience developing, debugging, and integrating enterprise APIs (REST, gRPC, WebSockets) and API gateways (e.g., Envoy, Kong)
- Data Transformation: Experience writing code to map, translate, and standardize mismatched data formats between systems
- System Orchestration: Experience building robust middleware, webhooks, and retry logic to handle high-volume sync traffic and system failures
- AI Stack Integration: Practical experience integrating LLM APIs, vector storage, and agentic protocols/frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP) via backend middleware
- Architecture & Security: Proven ability to create technical architecture blueprints (e.g., Lucidchart) and secure AI workloads against prompt injection and model vulnerabilities. Rapid mastery of Prisma AIRS
- Testing & Quality Assurance: Experience using testing frameworks (e.g., PyTest, unittest) and robust evaluation workflows for distributed systems
- Communication: Excellent customer focus, collaboration and communication skills
- Education: BS/MS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent or equivalent military experience
Desirable
- Asynchronous Systems: Strong background in distributed task queues (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ) and event-driven backend architectures
- AI Security Expertise: Hands-on experience with automated AI red teaming, prompt defense tools, and securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server interactions
- Ecosystem Familiarity: Working knowledge of major enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Databricks, Glean)
What the job involves
- Join our team as a Backend AI Software Integration Engineer building a multi-tenant GenAI Security Platform that enables enterprises to benchmark, red-team, and secure LLMs and agentic workflows
- In this core engineering role, you will focus predominantly on backend software development in Python—building middleware APIs, data ingestion endpoints, and integration hooks to embed Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS across enterprise AI pipelines and partner architectures
- Backend Software & API Engineering: Design, build, and maintain high-performance, asynchronous REST/gRPC microservices, background job workers, and database schemas in Python
- AI Ingestion & Integration Hooks: Develop clean API endpoints, webhook receivers, and data ingestion hooks to collect, route, and inspect LLM prompts, context payloads, and agent execution logs
- AI Gateways & Agent Workflows: Build middleware logic and AI Gateway integrations connecting model providers and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP) with inline security controls, policy enforcement, and fallback routing
- Solution Architecture & Blueprints: Author technical architecture diagrams and integration blueprints documenting insertion points for the Prisma AIRS portfolio (Model, Red Teaming, Runtime, and Agent Security) within cloud and hybrid environments
- Automated Red-Teaming & API Exposure: Engineer programmatic execution pipelines for automated LLM probing (jailbreaks, prompt injections) and expose structured API endpoints to serve telemetry data to frontend dashboards and SIEM tools
- Technical Onboarding: Review partner software architecture and provide documentation or SDKs to speed up integration timeline
- Travel: This role may require travel
Our take
With cyber threats evolving at lightening speed, businesses need robust solutions to protect their data and infrastructure. And the global cybersecurity market is projected to grow significantly, driven by increasing cyberattacks and the adoption of digital transformation initiatives. Because of this, companies are seeking security platforms that can address these challenges efficiently.
That's where Palo Alto Networks steps in, a frontrunner in the cybersecurity arena. It offers a suite of AI-powered security solutions designed to safeguard enterprises across various sectors. Its platforms, such as Cortex XSIAM and Prisma AIRS, integrate advanced threat detection, zero trust architecture, and real-time response capabilities so organizations are ready to manage and mitigate risks.
Its leadership is evident too, with impressive growth and strategic partnerships. In 2025, the company surpassed $1.5B in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace, highlighting the demand for its innovative security solutions. Additionally, a collaboration with AT&T aims to enhance cybersecurity offerings, further solidifying its market position.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
119% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$34m
SERIES A
May 2022
$11m
SEED
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We value your health and provide options so you can choose what best supports your lifestyle and personal health goals. Various nationwide plans — including Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, Delta Dental, VSP, and more — are available to you and your family. Our providers offer the flexibility you want and the coverage you need
- Wellness: With a large on-site gym and daily, instructor-led exercise classes at HQ in Santa Clara, Palo Alto Networks actively supports employee fitness. Our juice bar, Gym & Juice, features fresh juice blends, a quick and nutritious option pre- or post-workout. And our ongoing wellness speaker series highlights the latest trends in health and wellness
- Development: Professional development is serious business at Palo Alto Networks, where the Talent Development team offers 25+ courses to help employees boost their careers and develop leadership capability
- Financial: Most roles are eligible for equity grants, and we now offer new hires a quarterly vesting schedule right away. We want you to be fairly compensated and rewarded as soon as you make an impact – on our team, that happens immediately! And because we consider every employee a stakeholder in our long-term success, we offer an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 24-month lookback. From life insurance to health savings accounts, we provide ways to help you protect and grow your wealth. Palo Alto Networks offers both traditional and Roth 401(k) options, along with a company match of 50% to a max annual amount of $1,000
- Time Off: In addition to paid corporate holidays, Flexible Time Off programs empower our employees to balance their work schedules with personal time off. We offer 12 weeks of full pay for medical leave and 6 weeks of full pay for parental leave. As a company with strong ties to the military and veterans, we also offer 26 weeks of full pay for military leave
- Perks: Our corporate discount program provides employees with significant discounts on merchandise, travel and entertainment. We offer many on-site perks at headquarters, including cafeterias, fuel service, dry cleaning service, EV charging stations, and a company store. We also provide complimentary drinks, fresh fruit, and snacks in break rooms across our campus to help everyone power through the day. Life at Palo Alto Network
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Nikesh Arora
(CEO & Chairman)Previously the President and COO at SoftBank, CBO at Google, and CMO at T-Mobile.
Nir Zuk
(Founder & CTO)Previously CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Neworks in 2004. They also co-founded OneSecure where they served as CTO and was the Principal Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies.
Lee Klarich
(CPO)Initially joined Palo Alto in 2006 as the EVP of Product Management and became CPO in 2018. Prior to this, they were the Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks and a Product Line Manager at NetScreen Technologies.
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