Staff Software Engineer (AI SW Integration - Prisma AIRS)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States; most teams work from the office full time. Travel may be required.

Annual base salary: $134,600–$217,800, with potential bonus and restricted stock units.

Company

Cybersecurity organization developing technologies to protect enterprise digital environments and AI workloads.

What you will do

• Build high-performance asynchronous REST and gRPC microservices, background workers, and database schemas in Python.
• Develop APIs, webhook receivers, and ingestion hooks for LLM prompts, context payloads, and agent execution logs.
• Integrate model providers and agent frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and MCP with AI gateways, security controls, policy enforcement, and fallback routing.
• Create architecture diagrams and integration blueprints for Prisma AIRS across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Engineer automated LLM probing and red-teaming pipelines, exposing telemetry APIs for dashboards and SIEM tools.
• Review partner architectures and provide integration documentation or SDKs.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering or systems integration experience focused on backend development and cloud security.
• Production-level Python expertise for asynchronous services, API frameworks, and microservice architectures.
• Experience with REST, gRPC, WebSockets, API gateways, middleware, webhooks, retry logic, and high-volume synchronization.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs, vector storage, and agentic frameworks or protocols through backend middleware.
• Ability to create technical architecture blueprints and secure AI workloads against prompt injection and model vulnerabilities.
• Experience with PyTest or unittest, distributed-system evaluation, enterprise API integration, and strong customer communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, distributed task queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on AI red-teaming, prompt defense, and MCP server security experience.
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, Databricks, or Glean.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-first collaboration model with flexibility when needed.
• Employee benefits, potential bonus, and restricted stock units may be included in the offer.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and reasonable workplace accommodations.
• Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role.