Sr Staff Engineer Software (Full Stack Prisma AIRS)

Palo Alto Networks

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Your Career With Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, creating dynamic new attack surfaces with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. In response, Prisma AIRS delivers model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. Our customers can confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer to join the Prisma AIRS Runtime team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in designing, developing, and optimizing robust, scalable, and high-performance front end and backend components that power our cutting-edge AI security platform. This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus, and in office 3 days a week. This is not a remote role

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Expertise in modern React (Functional components) and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Expertise in building scalable distributed systems with excellent Python or Golang programming skills.
• Expertise writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Proven experience with modern backend frameworks, databases (SQL or NoSQL), and cloud platforms, specifically GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and convey ideas effectively
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Nice To Haves

• Expertise partnering with product managers, designers, and key cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience in user-centric design principles—color theory, typography, and layout hierarchy come naturally to you
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, ArgoCD), and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of 'Secure by Design' patterns and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and build innovative, scalable software products to ensure our customers can use AI securely
• Own new features/functionality from start to finish.
• Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test.
• Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable.
• Collaborate with product managers, backend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS
• Deliver high quality UX and provide the Prisma AIRS customer with a seamless, intuitive customer experience.
• Proactively identify problems and opportunities, proposing and developing simple, attainable solutions to enhance the team's development process and product quality.
• Serve as a role model in establishing and implementing engineering best practices, including test-driven development for AI runtime services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level