Sr Staff Software Engineer (AI SW Integration - Prisma AIRS)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$135k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance asynchronous Python REST/gRPC microservices, background job workers, and database schemas.
- Develop API endpoints, webhook receivers, and data ingestion hooks for LLM prompts, context payloads, and agent execution logs.
- Build AI gateway and middleware integrations connecting model providers and agentic frameworks with security controls, policy enforcement, and fallback routing.
- Create architecture diagrams and integration blueprints for Prisma AIRS across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Engineer automated LLM red-teaming and probing pipelines for jailbreaks and prompt injections, exposing telemetry APIs for dashboards and SIEM tools.
- Review partner architectures and provide documentation or SDKs to accelerate integrations.
- Travel as required by the role.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering or systems integration with emphasis on backend development and cloud security.
- Production-level Python expertise for asynchronous backend services, API frameworks, and microservice architectures.
- Experience developing and integrating enterprise REST, gRPC, and WebSockets APIs and API gateways.
- Experience mapping, translating, and standardizing data between mismatched systems, including middleware, webhooks, retry logic, and high-volume synchronization.
- Practical experience integrating LLM APIs, vector storage, and agentic protocols or frameworks through backend middleware.
- Ability to create technical architecture blueprints and secure AI workloads against prompt injection and model vulnerabilities.
- Experience with testing frameworks and evaluation workflows for distributed systems.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience or military experience.
- Preferred experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, event-driven architectures, automated AI red-teaming, prompt defense tools, MCP server security, ServiceNow, Databricks, or Glean.
- Strong customer focus, collaboration, communication, and partner-facing technical onboarding skills.
Benefits
- The role is primarily office-based, with flexibility when needed.
- Travel may be required.
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base salary.
- Employee benefits are available through the company benefits program.
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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.