Senior AI Engineer (Cortex XSOARXSIAM)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here everyone has a voice and every idea counts. If youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. Thats why most of our teams work from the office full time with flexibility when its needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving stronger relationships and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Your Career:
The Cortex Content team powers Palo Alto Networks security operations platforms (XSIAM/XSOAR) by building the essential integrations data connectors and intelligence layers that protect our customers.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about AI and automation to help scale our content this role your focus will be leveraging AI to accelerate the delivery quality and quantity of our security integrations and content infrastructure. You will design and develop intelligent tools and workflows that enable engineering peers and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to scale their output collaborating with them as they test adopt and integrate these solutions into our development lifecycle.

Your Impact:

• Scale Content Delivery: Design and implement AI-driven systems that empower the team to significantly increase both the quantity and the rigorous quality of our security integrations.
• Develop Cross-Functional Tooling: Build internal developer tools and agentic workflows that enable other engineers and TPMs to streamline content creation validation and management.
• Optimize Workflows: Create reliable CI/CD pipelines incorporating AI agents to automate code generation and testing processes.
• Support Team Adoption: Collaborate with engineering peers and cross-functional partners as they test and integrate your tools into their daily workflows using their feedback to drive continuous improvements.
• Contribute to AI Integration: Help lead the practical integration of LLMs and automation frameworks into our day-to-day engineering processes.

Qualifications

Your Experience:
Experience: 3 years of professional software engineering experience delivering clean maintainable code in a production environment.
Proven AI/Automation Impact: Demonstrated experience in at least one of the following areas:
Supported or led an AI transformation/adoption effort within an engineering team.
Developed and deployed a major AI-powered feature or internal productivity tool.
Built CI/CD workflows or developer tooling that utilizes autonomous AI agents.
Collaborative Mindset: Experience building tooling meant for other technical stakeholders (engineers/TPMs) and incorporating user feedback into future iterations.
Core Engineering Skills: Solid understanding of software design API development and data workflows.
Nice to Have:

• Python Proficiency: Strong experience with Python and its associated libraries or AI frameworks (e.g. FastAPI LangChain or similar orchestration tools).
• Security Knowledge: Familiarity with SIEM API integrations or general cybersecurity operations.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1