About the position
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. You will be a self-starter who is eager to learn and experiment with new technologies, able to work independently and as a teammate, identifying sales challenges and addressing solutions as needed. You will collaborate with Legal, Sales, Product Management, and customers to drive innovation and ensure secure, scalable adoption of cloud-native security solutions. Your impact will include leading complex, cross-functional projects that shape the product roadmap and align with field-driven priorities, providing actionable feedback to Product Managers, and advocating for best practices in securing modern application architectures.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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 that 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 experience with one or more major cloud infrastructure providers.
- At least 2 years 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with CSPM tools (e.g., Prisma Cloud etc.) to detect and remediate cloud misconfigurations and risks.
- Understanding of CIEM principles and hands-on experience with managing cloud entitlements across AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in building SOC workflows & incident response.
- Experience in building SIEM integrations.
- Experience in cloud native programming, scripts, and automation.
Benefits
- FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees.
- Mental and financial health resources.
- Personalized learning opportunities.
- Restricted stock units and a bonus.
