Sr Staff Software Engineer Agentic AI Security (Bay Area only)

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a Sr Staff Software Engineer to help us build out our AI Agent Security capability on the cloud. You have the unique opportunity to:

• Help build out a world-class security service that caters to the growing needs of multiple Fortune 100 enterprise companies across the globe
• Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings. 
• Accelerate the development team in delivering security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure.

Your Impact

• Responsible for developing software products for Agentic AI Security.
• Responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis design development deployment and support.
• Write clean testable readable scalable and maintainable Java/ Python / Go Lang code.
• Design develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure for our security platform ready for cloud-native deployment from inception to completion.
• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions.
• Develop a solid understanding and be able to explain advanced Cloud Computing and Cloud Security concepts to others.
• Work cross-functionally with Product Management SRE Software and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security-as-a-service offerings to the market in a timely high-quality manner.
• Be able to communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams clearly.
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 7 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on cloud-native application development at large organizations or innovative startups.
• Strong programming skills in one of Python Go or Java with experience in building distributed systems.
• Preferred experience with security products and integration with third-party APIs and services.
• 6 years of Experience running workloads on cloud-based architectures. (GCP experience preferred)
• Experience in developing scalable services using technologies like Big Query Spanner ElasticSearch Redis Kafka/PubSub MongoDB etc.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.  
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved.
• Experience with building and delivering services and workflows at scale leveraging microservices architectures.
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures security global network infrastructure distributed systems and load balancing. 
• Preferred experience with AI-based conversational UI and chatbot platforms and AI Agents.
• Can-do attitude and ability to make trade-off judgements with data-driven decision making.
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Enjoys working with diverse teams with strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience and deep understanding of Low Code / No Code platforms like Microsoft Power Platform Salesforce Zapier Marketo etc.
• Experience with Agentic AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio Salesforce Agentforce Crew AI Amazon Bedrock Azure AI Google Vertex AI OpenAI etc.
• Experience and interest in reverse engineering jailbreaking and hacking AI systems.
• Experience in AI Security research and performing security evaluations and threat modeling.
• In-depth experience with exploiting OWASP LLM Top 10 vulnerabilities OWASP Low Code No Code Top 10 vulnerabilities and OWASP NHI Top 10 vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of AI Agents / LLM security Application security Network security Authentication Authorization Identity systems encryption and secure coding practices.

Preferred Qualification

BS/MS in Computer Science other engineering/technical degree

Additional Information :

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve its critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes were facing. For the fastest-growing cybersecurity company the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. These engineers arent shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry rather than waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team has an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our companys growth over the next decade defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people and products can transform a business this is the team for you. If you dont wait for directions but instead identify new features and opportunities to get better this is your new career.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $165000 - $198000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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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