Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (Customer Engineering, Prisma AIRS)
Why it's interesting
The first major cybersecurity vendor to put an FDE on AI-runtime security — you embed with customer CISOs, ship low-latency gateway topologies across OpenAI/Anthropic/Bedrock/local vLLM, and upstream your own plugins straight into the core Prisma AIRS engine. Proof the FDE motion has reached security, where the buyer is the CISO, not the CTO.
The role
Hands-on developer/systems-architect embedded with customer engineering teams deploying Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto's AI-runtime security platform. Write production Python/Go/TypeScript to integrate with microservices and multi-cloud meshes, build identity-aware policy and prompt-security middleware, automate deploys with Terraform/Helm/Kubernetes, and act as tier-3 for live production systems. Lead architecture reviews with Principal Engineers and CISOs; convert customer patterns into reusable reference architectures. Base salary $147,000–$237,500 plus RSUs and bonus. Verified on Palo Alto Networks' careers site.
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