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Principal Architect - Enterprise AI - Distinguish IT SWE

Palo Alto Networks

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Sep 2, 2025
Santa Clara, CA, USA
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The company is looking to transform towards AI-first development practices, optimize developer productivity, and modernize its enterprise application landscape with AI at the core. The goal is to accelerate innovation, reduce time-to-market, and scale AI capabilities across all business functions.

Requirements

  • 15+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture, including 7+ years leading enterprise and application architecture at scale.
  • Proven expertise in designing complex, enterprise-grade platforms (custom applications and SaaS solutions), ideally across multiple domains (e.g., customer support, finance, sales)
  • Experience with application modernization, cloud native architecture, API first design principles, integration strategies, event driven architecture, disaster recovery, and application security patterns.
  • Deep knowledge of AI innovations and practical understanding of the full AI lifecycle for developer experience, building agents, apps.
  • Extensive experience with distributed systems architecture, microservices, multi cloud, hybrid cloud, Integration platforms, data platforms, and data lakes.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evangelize enterprise-wide architectural vision for engineering excellence, developer productivity platforms, and AI-integrated applications.
  • Establish architectural principles, design patterns, and engineering standards that prioritize quality, reliability, maintainability, and AI-first approaches.
  • Drive technical strategy for internal developer platforms (IDPs), code quality frameworks, development toolchains, reducing tech debt and improving delivery velocity.
  • Design and implement comprehensive code quality frameworks including automated testing, static analysis, and security scanning.
  • Architect self-service capabilities, automated testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines with built-in quality gates.
  • Champion platform engineering practices, infrastructure-as-code methodologies, and shift-left quality approaches.
  • Drive selection of AI tools, frameworks, cloud solutions, and hybrid infrastructure that align with business and engineering needs.

Other

  • Must be located in SF Bay area
  • Strong communication skills with a track record of influencing across VP+ and cross-org stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to align architectural decisions with business objectives and quality standards.
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and engineering craftsmanship.
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.