Principal Engineer Software (Agentic AI Security)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks® CASB team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help us build out our CASB Security capability on the cloud. You have the unique opportunity to: Help build out a world class security service which caters to the growing needs of multiple Fortune 100 enterprise companies across the globeBe part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking cloud security service offerings. Accelerate the development team in delivering security as a service in the public cloud by providing highly scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure. 

Your Impact

• Responsible for developing software products for Agentic AI Security
• Responsible for discovering attack vectors for AI Agents and Low Code No Code applications
• Work with PMs and Engineering Leaders to define product features to Secure AI agents and applications
• Responsible for quick prototyping and conducting POCs to demonstrate security issues with Agentic AI platforms and potential solutions
• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Java/ Python / Go lang code
• Design, develop and implement highly scalable software features and infrastructure on our security platform ready for cloud native deployment from inception to completion
• Participate actively and contribute to design and development discussions
• Develop solid understanding and be able to explain advanced Cloud Computing and Cloud Security  and AI security concepts to others
• Work cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Be able to clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud-native application development, at large organizations or innovative startups
• Experience and interest in reverse engineering, jail breaking and hacking AI systems
• 4+ years experience in AI Security research and performing security evaluations and threat modeling
• In-depth experience with exploiting OWASP LLM Top 10 vulnerabilities, OWASP Low Code No Code Top 10 vulnerabilities and OWASP NHI Top 10 vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of AI Agents / LLM security, Application security, Network security, Authentication, Authorization, Identity systems, encryption, and secure coding practices
• 5+ Experience and deep understanding of Low Code / No Code platforms like Microsoft Power Platform, Salesforce, Zappier, Marketo etc
• 3+ experience with Agentic AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, Crew AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI, Google Vert