Distinguished Architect Software Engineer (Cortex AgentiX)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design resilient, low-latency execution environments for autonomous agents, including state management, dynamic planning, and tool orchestration.
- Integrate LLM orchestration, vector retrieval, and automated evaluation harnesses into enterprise-grade backend services.
- Own the architectural strategy and standards for fault tolerance, security, and scalable AI operations across Cortex AgentiX.
- Lead technical design reviews, testing and evaluation frameworks, and technical mentoring across multidisciplinary teams.
- Translate security research and AI model capabilities into robust production-grade products.
- Influence executive stakeholders, guide multi-team technical roadmaps, and elevate engineering capabilities across the R&D hub.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience designing high-throughput distributed backend systems, with architectural leadership at scale.
- Hands-on production experience with LLM architectures, agentic frameworks such as LangGraph and AutoGen or custom orchestrators, vector databases, and automated evaluation pipelines.
- Advanced proficiency in Go or Python in cloud-native, microservices environments.
- Deep expertise in event-driven architectures, asynchronous execution models, and performance optimization under high concurrency.
- Proven ability to influence executives, guide multi-team roadmaps, and lead technical development across an R&D hub.
- Prior production AI experience involving LLMs, harnesses, evaluation tools, and AI infrastructure is mandatory.
- Experience with AI-driven automation or intelligent agents is preferred.
Benefits
- The role is based predominantly in the Tel Aviv office; most teams work from the office full time with flexibility when needed.
- Palo Alto Networks provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- The employer is committed to equal opportunity and diverse teams.
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.