Palo Alto Networks is building the world's most comprehensive AI security platform (Prisma AIRS) to address the risks created by complex AI ecosystems that traditional security approaches cannot handle.
Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- Influence technical and product roadmaps by collaborating with senior leaders, product managers, and engineers across multiple organizations.
- 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.
- This role is located at our dynamic Seattle WA office - in office 3 days a week. This is not a remote role.
