Sr Staff Engineer Software

Your Career

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer Backend on the AIRS Runtime team you will play a key role in designing and building the backend systems that power our AI security platform. You will help architect and implement scalable high-performance services that enable real-time insights secure AI workloads and deliver value to customers worldwide.

This role requires strong technical expertise deep understanding of distributed systems and a mindset focused on reliability and performance. Youll collaborate with frontend infrastructure and product engineers to deliver an industry-defining AI runtime security solution one that sets the standard for how organizations secure AI systems in production.

Your Impact

• Design build and maintain scalable backend services for AI runtime security ensuring high availability and performance.

• Own new features and components from design through deployment including architecture testing and monitoring.

• Collaborate closely with frontend infrastructure and product engineers to design clear APIs and data models that power a seamless user experience.

• Drive architectural decisions that improve performance scalability and maintainability across services.

• Apply best practices in distributed systems design observability and secure-by-design principles.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automate workflows for build testing and deployment.

• Mentor other engineers fostering growth and technical excellence within the team.

• Research evaluate and introduce new technologies and frameworks that strengthen our platform.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• 7 years of professional software engineering experience with strong focus on backend systems.

• Expertise in at least one strongly typed language such as Go (preferred) Java C# C and/or modern Python (with type hints Pydantic etc).

• Proven experience designing and implementing distributed systems and microservices architectures.

• Strong understanding of cloud environments (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure also valuable).

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab GitHub Actions) and containerized deployments (Docker Kubernetes).

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases caching systems and message queues.

• Familiarity with security best practices authentication and API design.

• Proficient in writing unit integration and end-to-end tests to ensure reliability and quality.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have:

• Experience building AI or data-intensive systems.

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka Pub/Sub).

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).

• Familiarity with gRPC or GraphQL APIs.

Additional Information :

The Team

The AIRS Runtime team is dedicated to building an industry-defining product in AI security. Based in a spacious and modern office in the heart of Berlin the team brings together cross-functional engineers and a product manager to collaborate closely. By working side by side we deliver a best-in-class AI runtime security product that serves customers around the world helping them understand risks and secure their AI deployments effectively.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at  .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time