Principal Engineer Software (Prisma AIRS Backend)

Our Mission

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Who We Are

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Job Summary

Your Career

With Prisma AIRS Palo Alto Networks is building the worlds most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models applications and agents creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot response Prisma AIRS delivers model security posture management AI red teaming and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime.
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join the Prisma AIRS shared services team specifically focused on platform this role you will play a crucial part in designing developing and optimizing robust scalable and high-performance backend systems that power our cutting-edge AI security platform.

This role is located at our dynamic downtown Seattle office and in office 3 days a week. This is not a remote role.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with product managers frontend software engineers product designers and infrastructure software engineers to ensure the success of the Prisma AIRS organization

• Design and build innovative and solid products to ensure our customers can use AI securely

• Own new features/functionality from start to finish. Participate in all phases of the product development cycle from definition design through implementation and test. Ensure that applications are production-ready scalable and reliable.

• Design build and operate production security services

• Develop expertise in new technologies

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 8 /- years of experience working as a back-end engineer

• Expertise in at least one strongly typed programming language (Go (preferred!) or Java C# C) or modern Python (type hints Pydantic etc)

• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud

• Experience writing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests

• Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL based databases

• Prior On call troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge in at least one the public cloud (GCP AWS or OCI)

• Experience with infra tools (docker kubernetes terraform) and CI/CD pipelines GitLab or GitHub

• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI for example)

• Excellent written and verbal communication able to collaborate and rally support

• Self-disciplined self-managed self-motivated and strong sense of ownership urgency and drive

• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

• Experience with the agile process and working with software development teams involved with building out full stack products deployed on the cloud at scale

• Startups or security company or cloud company experience is a plus

• BS or MS in Computer Science a related field or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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