Senior Technical Product Engineer - Cortex

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, identify sales challenges and address solutions as needed.

As a Technical Product Engineer, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our internal employees. You will be a strategic adviser to the business, driving valuable insight, guidance and feedback back into Palo Alto Networks. You will work across product teams to deliver this feedback

Your Impact

• Work cross-functionally with legal, sales, product management, and customer-facing teams to support innovation and execution.

• Coordinate and lead projects that span multiple departments to drive alignment and deliver impactful outcomes.

• Partner closely with Product Managers to provide feedback based on customer needs, field insights, and product gaps.

• Drive cloud-native security innovation for the modern SOC by identifying and enabling high-value use cases.

• Help design and deliver technical content for cloud security platforms, including integrations, guides, and automation examples.

Create high-quality enablement materials that help customers and partners adopt, integrate, and scale security solutions effectively.

Your Experience

• Proven ability to collaborate across functions, inspire teams and executives, and execute effectively in complex environments.

• Strong communicator with excellent verbal and written skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive stakeholders.

• 4+ years of experience with endpoint platforms, including hands-on work with forensics, EDR/SIEM, and incident response systems.

• Familiarity with the security operations landscape, including SIEM, XDR, SOAR, ASM, and SOC workflows.

• Experience in building SOC workflows, supporting incident response, and integrating security tools into enterprise environments.

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including knowledge of cloud-native security principles.

• Experience with automation, scripting, and integration of security technologies in both cloud and on-prem environments.

• Familiarity with securing cloud workloads using contextual risk signals and automated enforcement.

• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and modern application architectures is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional projects and priorities in a fast-paced, enterprise-scale setting.

• Technically curious, highly motivated to master product details, and proactive in establishing best practices.

• Strong work ethic, organizational skills, and a high degree of integrity.

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.

This team provides behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information for our systems engineers, staying on top of the environment we sell in, and helping to implement technical solutions based on our client’s feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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?: Yes

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.