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Palo Alto Networks · 12 hours ago

Sr Principal IT Software Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$223K/yr - $306K/yr

Palo Alto Networks is dedicated to protecting our digital way of life through innovation and technology. The Sr Principal IT Software Engineer will lead the architecture and implementation of advanced AI solutions, focusing on designing and innovating enterprise-grade systems to enhance Go-To-Market processes.

Agentic AICloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and implementation of a proxy-first 'AI Gateway' to ensure vendor independence and seamless switching between LLMs

Design and build a single, unified API endpoint to abstract LLM provider complexities, centralizing access and security control

Implement comprehensive observability pipelines for GenAI to track trace-level data, prompts, model latency, and cost-performance metrics

Proactively collaborate with business stakeholders to apply GenAI in automating complex Go-To-Market (GTM) business logic and workflows

Pioneer and institute innovative agentic AI by designing sophisticated Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication

Develop and implement 'LLM as a Judge' evaluation frameworks to automate quality assurance for system outputs

Build and maintain robust AI safety guardrails to prevent PII exposure, filter inappropriate content, and defend against prompt injection attacks

Develop advanced adversarial defense mechanisms, including keyword filtering and behavioral analysis, to protect models from manipulation

Qualification

Generative AIFull-stack systemsAPI designMulti-Agent SystemsAI safety guardrailsAdversarial defense mechanismsObservability pipelinesInnovationCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Extensive experience in architecting and innovating enterprise-grade, full-stack systems

Hands-on, highly technical leadership skills

Experience in designing internal and external business applications

Proficiency in implementing AI solutions for business processes

Ability to lead the architecture and implementation of AI systems

Experience in designing and building unified API endpoints

Knowledge of observability pipelines for tracking data and performance metrics

Proven ability to collaborate with business stakeholders

Experience in designing Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-to-Agent communication

Ability to develop evaluation frameworks for quality assurance

Experience in building AI safety guardrails

Knowledge of adversarial defense mechanisms

Benefits

Restricted stock units

Bonus

Company

Palo Alto Networks

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Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.

Founded in 2005

Santa Clara, California, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.paloaltonetworks.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$65M

Key Investors

Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners

2012-07-20IPO

2008-11-03Series C· $10M

2008-08-18Series C· $27M

Leadership Team

Helmut Reisinger

CEO EMEA

Nikesh Arora

Chairman CEO

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