Sr. Technical Product Engineer (Cortex)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to 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 you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re 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!

Job Summary

The Team

Product Management or PDM - 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 Product Management team helps us do just that. This team provides the 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 clients' feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.

Job Summary

The Technical Product Engineering (TPE) team is seeking a Principal Technical Product Engineer to act as the primary engineering subject matter expert for top accounts across North America and Latin America. In this high-impact, customer-facing role, you will bridge the gap between product engineering and highest-value enterprise clients by providing deep expertise in Data Security, Exposure Management, and Threat Intelligence. You will empower customers to secure complex multi-cloud environments, reduce data exposure, and navigate targeted cyber threats. Additionally, you will translate real-world enterprise requirements into actionable engineering specifications to drive continuous product enhancement and technical adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the TPE subject matter expert and technical liaison for top enterprise accounts across NA and LATAM.
• Partner with Customer Success and Product Management to lead technical architectural reviews, custom implementations, and escalations.
• Translate complex customer requirements and unique enterprise edge cases into actionable engineering specifications and product enhancements.
• Conduct specialized technical workshops and risk briefings to secure sensitive data flows across multi-cloud environments.
• Assist top clients in identifying shadow data stores and mapping toxic access combinations to reduce risk.
• Contextualize vulnerabilities and attack surface risks based on high-value data assets and specific industry risk profiles.
• Deliver threat-informed exposure reduction strategies to help accounts prioritize remediation based on actual exploitability.
• Provide customers with threat-informed recommendations to harden product deployments against current cyber attack campaign tactics.
• Partner with engineering teams to develop automated security controls, API integrations, and features based on threat trends.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12 years of experience, or Master's degree with 8 years of experience, or PhD with 5 years of experience.
• Proven experience working directly with executive security stakeholders at enterprise-tier accounts.
• Deep level knowledge of Data Security concepts, tools, and enterprise DLP solutions across cloud, network, and endpoint environments.
• Strong working knowledge of Attack Surface Management and risk-based vulnerability management.
• Practical understanding of MITRE ATT&CK mapping and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI).
• Demonstrated ability to act as a bridge between customer security teams and internal product groups to drive engineering changes.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Technical Product Engineering, Customer Security Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Security Consulting.
• Direct experience supporting large enterprise accounts in highly complex multi-cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of threat actor profiles targeting enterprise verticals in North America and Latin America.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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