Sr. Technical Product Engineer (Cortex - XSIAM))

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, 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 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

• Drive innovation within the modern Security Operations Center (SOC) by developing content and capabilities aligned with Cortex and detection-focused workflows.
   

• Collaborate with legal, sales, product, and customer-facing teams to translate security operations needs into actionable product improvements.
   

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives across product management, engineering, and field teams for high-impact security use cases.
   

• Build high-quality content for the Cortex Marketplace including detection rules, parsers, dashboards, and other SOC-enabling artifacts.
   

• Provide structured product feedback to influence roadmap decisions based on real-world SecOps challenges and opportunities.
   

• Create detailed documentation and usage guides tailored for analysts, detection engineers, and security practitioners.
   

• Promote operational excellence by designing scalable detection and response workflows grounded in industry best practices and threat-informed defense.
   

Your Experience 

• Ability to inspire and align teams across functions, paired with strong execution and delivery skills.
   

• 2+ years of experience in security operations, threat detection, incident response, or detection engineering roles.
   

• Solid understanding of SIEM, log analytics, data normalization, and detection lifecycle management (rule creation, tuning, suppression, enrichment).
   

• Hands-on experience with XSIAM or similar platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, etc.) is a strong plus.
   

• Strong technical writing and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
   

• Skilled in scripting or automation (Python, JavaScript, etc.) for detection development or incident investigation tasks.
   

• Experience managing multiple projects or programs in dynamic, fast-paced environments with cross-functional visibility.
   

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), especially as it relates to telemetry ingestion, detection engineering, or automated response — a significant advantage.
   

• Experience with CNAPP solutions (e.g., Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Orca) and integrating cloud posture, workload protection, or entitlement data into SecOps workflows — an advantage.

• Bonus: Exposure to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, or cloud-native services and their intersection with SecOps.

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

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $134000/YR - $215500/YR. 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.

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.

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.