Principal Engineer - Prisma AIRS Runtime Security

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Your Career

With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world's 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 address. In 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 Principal Engineer to join the Prisma AIRS Runtime security team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in designing, developing, and optimizing robust, scalable, and high-performance front end and backend components that power our cutting-edge AI security platform.

Your Impact

• Design and build innovative, scalable software 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.

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• Collaborate with product managers, backend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS
• Deliver high quality UX and provide the Prisma AIRS customer with a seamless, intuitive customer experience.
• Proactively identify problems and opportunities, proposing and developing simple, attainable solutions to enhance the team's development process and product quality.
• Serve as a role model in establishing and implementing engineering best practices, including test-driven development for AI runtime services
  
  

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus, and in office 3 days a week. This is not a remote role.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Expertise in modern React (Functional components) and JavaScript/TypeScript

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• Experience in user-centric design principles—color theory, typography, and layout hierarchy come naturally to you
• Expertise writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts using OpenApi specification
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, ArgoCD), and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and convey ideas effectively
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Expertise partnering with product managers, designers, and key cross-functional stakeholders
• Expertise in building scalable distributed systems with excellent Python or Golang programming skills.

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• Proven experience with modern backend frameworks, databases (SQL or NoSQL), and cloud platforms, specifically GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
  
  

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.

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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