Jobs at Palo Alto in Canada, Toronto

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

We are looking for a proven first-line sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and revenue growth for our sales team. This role will entail:

• Deeply understanding your customers’ needs by doing the research to develop insight into their priorities

• Bring support to your team by participating in and leading prospect meetings

• Deep dive into weekly territory pipeline and forecasting activities to coach direct reports on strategies to drive closure

• Actively engage in territory planning and development, relationship development and opportunity to drive revenue by supporting and assisting your team in closing opportunities

• Lead a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team

• In-depth technical knowledge of our portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to help solve our customers' problems

• Drive and oversee team selling opportunities

• Holds team and self accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach when faced with setbacks

• Ability to communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite and establishes open and trusting relationships

• Successfully influences others through change management

• Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training while upholding our core values.

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry

• Experience with channel and partner sales models

• Proven leader with the ability to create high performing teams in a rapidly growing sales environment.

• Year over year track record of successful sales pipeline management and results

• Highly driven individual with an execution focus and a strong sense of urgency with an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Track record of consistently delivering revenue numbers and goals while maintaining a focus on team development and growth.

• Capable of successfully managing significant client escalations and issues

• Excellent at influencing others, both externally and internally; ability to communicate effectively and build consensus across various functional groups to achieve goals.

• You're a leader and you know that to get the best results, you also have to be a great team player, building excellent rapport and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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 $323,700 - $445,100/YR CAD. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry

• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers

• Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments

• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team

• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.

• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process

• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.

• Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling

• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise

• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business

• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO

• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative

• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers

• 50-75% travel within the region

• Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.

Your Experience

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager

• Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist

• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products

• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base

• Experience in selling, designing, implementing or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies

• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills

• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor

• Proficient in English

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall dataplane team as a Software Engineer. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall. As a member of a data plane networking software group, you will be responsible for designing and developing the next-generation firewall. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks.

Your Impact

• Responsible for development of the critical dataplane components for the State-of-the-art Next Generation Firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments.
• Lead L2-L4 network security feature development;
• Lead next generation security product development;
• Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner;
• Work with multi-functional team members on user requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc.
• Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments

Your Experience

• Expert in common network protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, multicast.
• Expert in dataplane technologies like DPDK based packet processing.
• Expert in typical network device features like NAT, ALG, DoS Protection.
• Expert in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems.
• Good to have experience in using Broadcom chips for switching, QoS and interface management.
• In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations.
• In-depth understanding of linux systems.
• Expert C, Python, Shell script programming skills.
• Tech lead experience in networking domains.
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of related programming experience

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 $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry

• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers

• Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments

• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team

• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.

• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process

• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.

• Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling

• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise

• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business

• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO

• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative

• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers

• 50-75% travel within the region

• Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.

Your Experience

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager

• Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist

• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products

• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base

• Experience in selling, designing, implementing or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies

• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions

• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills

• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor

• Proficient in English

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara California headquarters campus, and in office 3 days a week.

Your Impact

As a Principal Engineer Software (Backend- Data Security), your key responsibilities will include:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure web applications used by customers worldwide
• Work across backend (Java/Spring Boot)—to deliver exceptional user experiences
• Own features end-to-end, from design and architecture to implementation, testing, and production support
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate ideas into working software
• Contribute to architectural decisions and set technical direction for the platform
• Drive quality, performance, and reliability improvements across the system

Your Experience

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• 8+ years of experience developing in Java, MySQL/MongoDB
• 5+ years of backend development using Java, Spring Boot, J2EE, and cloud-native platforms like GCP or AWS
• Experience deploying containerized apps with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of web architecture, security, and distributed systems
• Track record of owning and delivering complex software projects end-to-end
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a collaborative and positive “can-do” mindset
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Bonus: Experience in the cybersecurity domain or strong interest in the space

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: $147000/YR - $225500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.

• Understands Key customer business requirements and has the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers.

• Ability to drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Building customer relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.

• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers

• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.

• Demonstrating strong communication skills, influencing through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, and conducts technical engagements and workshops that are clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences

• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• Demonstrates Cross functional leadership driving collaboration and orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy.

• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner

• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating PANW's leadership in the cybersecurity space

• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events

• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures

• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred

• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal

• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements

• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies

• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions

• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred

• This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.

• Proficient in English

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 $198,000 - $273,000. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Account Management
  • Key account ownership and relationship management for Palo Alto Networks’ largest customers
  • Operate as primary point of contact for multiple product lines supporting the customer journey
  • Operating cross-functionally with clients, end user through C-suite, and internal partners across product lines - Cloud, DevSecOps, Network, and AI security
• Customer Impact
  • Own customer planning, deployment, adoption, account-level reviews, and escalations
  • Builds and manages the customized product delivery to the customer’s tech environment
  • Understands Customer Security Priorities and is able to translate it to Success Plans
• Partnership
  • Partner with Sales team to develop success plans, assess customer health, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure renewals
  • Partner with Post-Sales teams as Professional Services , Customer Success & Support
  • Engage and coordinate customer delivery across Palo Alto Networks team members including engineering and professional services

Your Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience in a customer-facing role, managing high-touch, high visibility post-sales engagements
• Specialization in software product and service delivery to strategic customers with an expertise in 1+ of the following areas
  • Cloud Security
  • DevSecOps
  • Network Security
  • Security Operations
• Proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers, including the ability to interact with C-suite through client teams at various levels of technical and non-technical depth
• Expertise in customer guidance throughout their Journey focusing on Value Realization in addition managing customer escalations, balancing customer expectations, and negotiating successful resolutions
• Thrive in a matrixed, team environment, anchored by our values of Collaboration, Disruption, Execution, Inclusion, and Integrity
• Bonus - Client-focused program management
• Bonus - Skilled in customer success software (i.e. Gainsight, Salesforce, Smartsheet, Clarizen, Jira)
• Travel - Open to occasional travel according to the need for strategic customer engagement and on-sites - Potential for 10-15%
• Fluent French OR German speaking skills are required, alongside English and Spanish.

You’ll be ensuring that your customers are successful with our products and as threats evolve and technology changes, you continue helping them to accomplish their desired outcomes.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.