About the position
Palo Alto Networks® SaaS Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Software Engineer to help scale out our security platform with a sharp focus on platform and infrastructure capabilities. As a member of the team, you have the unique opportunity to be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings. You will lead initiatives in the platform team to deliver security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions. Additionally, you will deliver innovative solutions that enhance the security of AI agents and agentic workflows. This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus.
Responsibilities
- Build out world class Agentic AI security platform, influencing critical decisions on technology, architecture, integration, and reusability.
- Influence and architect cloud native, distributed computing system design, data ingestion pipelines and data storage solutions.
- Research and develop Machine Learning algorithms to enable security solutions for emerging agentic AI workflows.
- 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 fashion with excellent quality.
- Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, including requirement analysis, design, development, test, release and support.
- Foster software development best practices to deliver clean, testable, maintainable, readable and scalable code.
- Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes.
- Identify innovative patentable solutions for complex problems to influence thought leadership within the organization.
Requirements
- Industry experience building scalable web applications.
- Proficiency in Front-End technologies: React (hooks, Redux, component architecture).
- Strong Back-End development experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python.
- Solid understanding of modern software architecture, microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Familiar with AI-based technologies (e.g., LLM integration, ML model APIs, vector databases) and AI-based productivity tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Tabnine).
- Proven experience leading complex projects and mentoring engineers.
- Bachelor's + 4 years or Master's + 2 years experience building scalable web applications.
- Education: M.S./B.S. degree in Engineering, Data Science or equivalent experience in a related field or equivalent military experience required.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment with options for in-office and remote work.
- FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items.
- Mental and financial health resources.
- Personalized learning opportunities.
- Restricted stock units and a bonus.
