Sr Technical Product Engineer

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.

Your Career:

Palo Alto Networks is a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch technical pro engineers to expand the team. As a Senior Technical Product Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our employees.

Be a self-starter who is eager to learn and experiment with new technologies, be able to work independently and as a teammate, and identify sales challenges and address solutions as needed.

As a Sr. TPE, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our internal employees. You will serve as a strategic adviser to the business, providing valuable insights, guidance, and feedback that will drive improvements at Palo Alto Networks. You will work across product teams to deliver this feedback

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with Legal, Sales, Product Management, and customers to drive innovation and ensure secure, scalable adoption of cloud-native security solutions.

• Lead complex, cross-functional projects that shape the product roadmap and align with field-driven priorities.

• Provide actionable feedback to Product Managers to influence development in areas such as cloud posture, workload protection, and identity management.

• Design and deliver automation content, playbooks, and integrations that address real-world SOC use cases and cloud security risks.

• Contribute to the evolution of Cortex product capabilities by enhancing visibility, risk prioritization, and policy enforcement across multi-cloud environments.

• Advocate for best practices in securing modern application architectures using automation, contextual risk insights, and scalable cloud-native controls.

Your Experience

• Ability to inspire teams, colleagues, and executives, paired with an ability to execute

• Understanding of cloud native security and security operations use cases

• Experience managing cross-functional programs in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities

• Excellent professional presence and confidence working with and advising entry-level through top executives

• A team player who creatively and effectively solves complex issues and establishes best practices proactively

• Understanding and affinity for technology and a motivation to master product and market details

• Strong work ethic, integrity, and organizational skills

• At least 2 years of experience with one or more major cloud infrastructure providers

• At least 2 years of experience with security orchestration, automation, and response technology

• Understanding of securing cloud platforms using security operations automation

• Technical knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern application architectures

• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities 

• Experience with CSPM tools (e.g., Prisma Cloud etc.) to detect and remediate cloud misconfigurations and risks. - an advantage

• Understanding of CIEM principles and hands-on experience with managing cloud entitlements across AWS/Azure/GCP - an advantage

• Experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and modern CI/CD pipelines - an advantage

• Experience in building SOC workflows & incident response - an advantage

• Experience in building SIEM integrations - an advantage

• Experience in cloud native programming, scripts, and automation - an advantage

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our TPE team helps us do just that.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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  [email protected].

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.