Sr Staff Engineer Software - NetSec - Bangalore

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 The TeamOur engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment. Job SummaryWe are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall team. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall. As a member of this group you will be responsible for designing and developing the next-generation firewall software. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle. You will focus on using AI to transform how the solutions will be built. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks. Key ResponsibilitiesResponsible for developing NextGen Network Security Components and Protocols for State-of-the-art firewalls deployed in Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments.Build L2-L4 network security features, including stateful TCP/UDP inspection and manageability software, across both on-premises hardware and virtual platforms.Support critical customer escalations and provide timely root cause analysis. Effective decision-maker who takes ownership and independently drives and leads tasks and assignmentsBuild and deploy LLM-based agents and multi-step evaluation workflows for everything you develop and drive development using AI.Qualifications Required Qualifications 5+ years of strong experience in C Programming and large scale software development on Unix/Linux. Expert in common network protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, multicast. Expert in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems. In-depth understanding of linux systems. Expert C, Python programming skills. Practical experience building LLM-based applications (agents, stateless as well as stateful (multi-turn) systems, evaluators (RAG based or Rule Based). Understanding of model fine-tuning, embedding optimization, and prompt engineering Hands-on experience working directly with AI models, including training, evaluating, and deploying models, as well as building LLM-based applications (agents, multi-turn systems, evaluators). Advanced Agent Development & MCP: Proven experience building autonomous AI agents with hands-on integration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect AI models to external tools, data sources, and internal APIs. Understanding of model fine-tuning, embedding optimization, and prompt engineering. Experience with broader LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI). Kno .