Principal Engineer (Console)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build core backend services and distributed systems powering Console’s AI agents and enterprise workflows.
- Own the architecture and development of agent execution and orchestration systems for complex, asynchronous, and long-running workflows.
- Build scalable state-management, concurrency, fault-tolerance, and recovery systems for reliable production agent execution.
- Develop shared APIs, execution frameworks, and reusable platform abstractions for new agent capabilities.
- Build integration and tool-execution systems that allow agents to interact securely with enterprise applications and APIs.
- Partner with AI and Product Engineering to evolve the agentic architecture and translate emerging AI capabilities into production systems.
- Drive technically complex projects from architecture through production while balancing performance, scalability, reliability, and development velocity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed-systems engineering building and shipping production-grade software.
- Experience designing scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed architectures.
- Experience with asynchronous processing, concurrency, state management, or distributed workflows.
- Track record of owning and shipping technically complex products or foundational systems from the ground up.
- Strong architectural judgment, autonomy, and ability to make technical tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.
- Product-minded approach to designing simple and extensible systems for complex engineering challenges.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines and take ownership beyond the immediate scope.
- Active interest in emerging AI technologies and development tools, with informed perspectives on software design, development, and operations.
- Preferred experience with agentic AI platforms, workflow orchestration engines, distributed task execution, LLM application architectures, agent frameworks, tool calling, AI evaluation or observability, secure multi-tenant SaaS platforms, enterprise integration frameworks, foundational platform services, developer frameworks, or early-stage startup and 0-to-1 development.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Annual base salary range is $156,400.00-$253,000.00, with potential restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are available through the company benefits program.
- Immigration sponsorship is eligible for this role.
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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.