Sr. Staff Software Engineer (AI Platform)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$154k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production-grade AI applications, agentic workflows, and custom LLM integrations.
- Develop autonomous software agents for operational automation, drift detection, and application workflows.
- Integrate predictive machine learning models for application performance, system behavior, and operational-spend analysis.
- Build intelligent observability, auditing, vulnerability-patching, and security automation tools.
- Translate frontier AI model capabilities into high-availability, high-throughput software services in partnership with Core AI/ML teams.
- Design internal AI agents and diagnostic workflows for automated root cause analysis.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building AI software, integrating LLMs, or developing predictive analytics in production applications.
- Experience with LLM APIs and SDKs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock, plus prompt engineering and agent framework development.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, TypeScript with Node.js, or Go.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, asynchronous programming, distributed-systems design, and performance tuning.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Terraform, Kubernetes, service meshes, cloud-native networking, Linux internals, SRE practices, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification or equivalent cloud architecture certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxNode.jsPythonTerraformTypeScript
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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.