Principal Engineer Software Prisma Airs Backend jobs at Palo Alto in United States, Seattle

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Key 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, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS Model Security
• Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch reliability, availability, and performance
• Develop expertise in new technologies and keep up with the rapidly evolving AI security landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in at least one programming language such as modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc), Go, Java, C#, or C++
• 8+ years experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
• Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience with a major cloud provider like GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana is a plus
• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) 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
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

Salary Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000/YR - $237500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure software engineers to ensure the success of the Prisma AIRS organization

• Design and build innovative and solid 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.

• Design, build, and operate production security services

• Develop expertise in new technologies

Your Experience

• Expertise in at least one strongly typed programming language (Go (preferred!), or Java, C#, C++) or modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc)

• Experience writing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests

• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud

• Deep knowledge in the public cloud (GCP, AWS, or OCI) is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub is a plus

• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support

• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $135000 - $155,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Key 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, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS Model Security
• Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch reliability, availability, and performance
• Develop expertise in new technologies and keep up with the rapidly evolving AI security landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-8 years in the following areas
• Expertise in at least one programming language such as modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc), Go, Java, C#, or C++
• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
• Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience with a major cloud provider like GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana is a plus
• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) 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
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $126000/YR - $204500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for multiple complex, highly distributed backend systems.
• Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of innovative, cross-functional product initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure for a global enterprise.
• Influence technical and product roadmaps by collaborating with senior leaders, product managers, and engineers across multiple organizations.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader, providing mentorship and raising the technical bar for other senior and staff-level engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Pioneer and evangelize best practices for software development, operational excellence, and architectural patterns that impact entire product lines.

Your Experience

• Deep and proven experience (12+ years) of architecting, building, and launching complex, large-scale distributed systems with significant business impact.
• Expert-level proficiency in modern Python or at least one strongly typed programming language such as Go, Java, or C++.
• Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a track record of building highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrable experience operating mission-critical systems in production with stringent SLAs, including on-call leadership and incident response.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including a deep understanding of its internals and operational best practices.
• Experience with machine learning (ML/MLOps), security, or data engineering would be a significant advantage.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and possess the ability to drive clarity and alignment on technical direction in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $212,000 - $240,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure software engineers to ensure the success of the Prisma AIRS organization

• Design and build innovative and solid 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.

• Design, build, and operate production security services

• Develop expertise in new technologies

Your Experience

• Expertise in at least one strongly typed programming language (Go (preferred!), or Java, C#, C++) or modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc)

• Experience writing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests

• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud

• Deep knowledge in the public cloud (GCP, AWS, or OCI) is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub is a plus

• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support

• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $135000 - $155,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our Stack

Our platform is built on a modern, cloud-native foundation centered around Kubernetes. We value deep expertise in a few core areas and a strong desire to master the technologies that drive our platform forward.

Cloud & Orchestration

• GCP (primary), Kubernetes, AWS, Containerization tools

CI/CD & GitOps

• GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Github actions

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), Helm, Terraform, Cue

Languages & Core Tooling

• Python (modern, typed), Go (highly desired), BASH, rego

We actively leverage AI Coding Assistants like Claude to boost our productivity.

Your Impact

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader whose influence extends across the entire Prisma AIRS organization. You won't just be operating infrastructure; you'll be building the platform that defines how we build and ship software. Your impact will be measured by your ability to:

• Act as a force multiplier for our engineering teams by building and evangelizing a cohesive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that simplifies, builds safety into, and accelerates the path to production.

• Drive the adoption of GitOps and progressive delivery across the organization. Leveraging the Argo suite, you will provide safe, automated, and observable deployment pipelines that engineering teams can trust, directly improving the quality and velocity of our product.

• Elevate the organization's cloud-native expertise by setting the standard for Kubernetes and GCP best practices. Your guidance and the patterns you create will directly influence the architecture, reliability, and security of our core products.

• Architect and operate a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Your work will form the resilient foundation that Prisma AIRS is built upon, ensuring our customers are protected around the clock.

• Reduce engineering toil and eliminate entire classes of problems through insightful automation, self-service tooling, and observability frameworks. You will give time back to every engineer in the AIRS org.

Your Experience

We're looking for a seasoned platform engineer who is not just a master of their craft, but also a catalyst for the teams around them. You thrive on solving complex problems from first principles and have a passion for building systems that empower others. While we value a diverse range of experience, the ideal candidate will embody the following:

• An Innate Sense of Ownership and a Collaborative Spirit. You are a highly technical, self-motivated contributor who sees projects through from idea to production. Crucially, you are easy to work with and excel at navigating the organization, acting as a central point of collaboration for multiple engineering teams.
• A Superpower for Debugging. When things break, you are the person people turn to. You have a deep command of engineering fundamentals - from Linux internals and networking to application performance - that allows you to systematically diagnose and solve problems in complex distributed systems, regardless of the specific technology stack.
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Platforms. You have extensive, hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure declaratively. You are an expert in modern IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, Crossplane/ACK/KCC) and have deep proficiency with a major cloud provider, ideally GCP.
• Deep Expertise in the Cloud-Native Ecosystem. You have a thorough understanding of Kubernetes in large-scale production environments and are fluent in building automation and platform tooling using modern, typed Pytho n. Experience with Go is a significant plus.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $147000 - $185,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career As a Principal Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex SOC transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM.

• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform.

• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization.

• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform.

• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats.

• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy.

• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation.

• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement.

• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise.

• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities.

Your Experience

• A proven track record in modernizing Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to achieve automation, AI-driven detection, and measurable improvements in MTTD/MTTR.

• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO.

• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments.

• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows.

• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence.

• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules.

• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus.

• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex).

• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus.

• Must be able to travel up to 30%.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $163,000 - $189,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.