Principal Technical Product Engineer
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy and vision for cross-functional Cortex initiatives with customers, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and other teams.
- Advise CISOs, security executives, cloud leaders, and other executive stakeholders on Cortex architecture, deployment, integrations, scalability, and security strategy.
- Translate customer challenges into product requirements and influence product strategy, roadmap decisions, and prioritization of product gaps.
- Provide technical leadership across XSIAM, XDR, XSOAR, Cortex Cloud/CNAPP, detection and response, AI Security, Agentic AI, and MCP.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Support, and Marketing.
- Create reusable architectures, playbooks, troubleshooting methodologies, best practices, and technical enablement materials.
- Mentor technical professionals and raise engineering and technical excellence across the organization.
- Track competitive products and emerging capabilities and provide actionable market intelligence to leadership and Product Management.
Requirements
- Proven ability to influence teams, colleagues, and executives while independently executing and delivering complex work.
- Deep cybersecurity and cloud technical expertise, including the ability to set technical direction.
- Extensive experience leading cross-functional programs, multiple high-stakes projects, and strategic enterprise customer engagements.
- Exceptional professional presence and confidence advising audiences from practitioners to C-level executives.
- Experience developing scalable solutions and resolving complex technical issues proactively.
- Extensive experience working with strategic enterprise customers and major cloud infrastructure providers.
- Strong background in security orchestration, automation, and response, XSIAM, XDR, or CNAPP technologies.
- Demonstrated mastery of securing modern cloud platforms and application architectures.
- Strong knowledge of product, market, competitive, AI Security, and Agentic AI concepts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentation abilities.
- Strong work ethic, integrity, organizational discipline, and collaborative leadership.
Benefits
- Remote role with hybrid teams collaborating across geographies.
- Palo Alto Networks is committed to reasonable accommodations and is an equal opportunity employer.
- This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship; applicants for work visas will not be sponsored.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.