Sr Staff Software Engineer (AI Software Integration - Prisma AIRS)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States of America; most teams work from the office full time. The role may require travel.

Annual base salary: $156,400–$253,000.

Company

Palo Alto Networks develops cybersecurity solutions designed to protect digital environments and secure enterprise AI workloads.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance asynchronous REST/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.
• Connect model providers and agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and MCP through AI gateways with policy enforcement and fallback routing.
• Create architecture diagrams and integration blueprints for Prisma AIRS across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Build automated LLM red-teaming pipelines for jailbreak and prompt-injection testing, and expose telemetry APIs for dashboards and SIEM tools.
• Review partner architectures and provide integration documentation or SDKs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering or systems integration experience focused on backend development and cloud security.
• Production-level Python experience with asynchronous services, FastAPI, Flask, gRPC, and microservice architectures.
• Experience developing and integrating enterprise REST, gRPC, and WebSocket APIs, 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 testing frameworks such as PyTest or unittest, plus a BS/MS in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration is emphasized, with flexibility when needed.
• Employee benefits are available, with additional compensation potentially including restricted stock units and a bonus.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
• Immigration sponsorship is available for this role.