Principal Engineer Software jobs at Palo Alto in India, Bengaluru

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

Your Impact

• Design, implement, and maintain network security architectures and security controls.

• Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and procedures.

• Configure and manage network security devices (firewalls, IPS / IDS, etc.).

• Troubleshoot network security issues and implement solutions.

• Provide technical expertise and guidance to other IT staff.

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree in technical, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent military experience required
• 10 years of experience in network security roles, with a focus on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure network infrastructures.
• Experience with security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH, CCIE Security) is a plus.
• Extensive experience with network security technologies (firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPNs, SASE security etc.).
• Experience with security protocols and standards (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, AD etc.).
• Experience with designing, deploying, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Palo Alto VM Series, and Physical Firewalls
• Experience designing and integrating with Panorama
• Experience designing and integrating with Prisma Access
• Working knowledge of routing ( OSPF / BGP) & switching.
• Strong understanding of network security concepts and best practices.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts and technologies.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.

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

The Ecosystem Renewals Manager will be responsible for shaping and scaling our renewal revenue performance through our ecosystem partners. This individual contributor role requires channel experience—ideally someone who has worked directly within a partner or distributor organization—and who understands ecosystem dynamics, partner economics, renewal programs, and the unique metrics that drive partner-led revenue motions.

You will partner across the Ecosystem team to define the future of partner-led renewals, ensuring a predictable, scalable, and customer-centric renewal experience across EMEA.

Your Impact

Strategic Partnership with Sales, Ecosystems teams, and Ecosystem Partners, to define, execute, and deliver quarterly bookings targets for Renewals with predictability and reliability.

• Working with the renewal managers and channel team you will define the Ecosystem Renewals core principles for EMEA, ensuring alignment with Sales, Channel, and Global Customer Success teams.

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Ecosystem Team driving and executing integrated renewal strategies across partner types.

• Leverage your channel background knowledge to help shape models that reflect how partners operate with the renewal portfolio including their incentives and the critical KPIs governing their success with renewals.

• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Channel-Centric Renewals Revenue Leadership

• Own partner-led renewal visibility and forecasting, ensuring accuracy and visibility across distributor, reseller, and GSI renewal motions.

• Drive the renewals motion with distribution partners and channel partners to ensure partner engagement that drives timely renewals at targeted renewal rates.
• Play an integrated part of performance reviews with distributors and key partners, using ecosystem KPIs such as renewal rates, partner attach, revenue retention, pipeline velocity, and partner lifecycle metrics.
• Identify gaps and opportunities within partner-led renewal programs and propose enhancements grounded in channel operational realities.

Operational Excellence

• Drive transformation of channel renewal processes, optimizing workflows and partner engagement through scalable governance, automation, and analytics.
  

• Ensure partner renewal operations are integrated seamlessly into internal systems (Salesforce, Clari, PRM) and aligned to our sales forecasting cadences.

• Partner with sales operations to help build, launch and utilize a dashboard visible to our ecosystem distributors whilst having a full understanding of GDPR restrictions and limitations

Partner Collaboration & Enablement

• Act as the primary renewals liaison to Channel Sales, Distribution Leaders, and Alliances stakeholders.
  

• Work closely with distributors and partners to ensure they are equipped with the right insights, tools, and training to execute high-quality renewals.
  

• Partner with Channel Enablement to design renewal-focused partner programs, certifications, rebates and competency frameworks.

• Represent Renewals in regional distribution events, channel, and ecosystem forums.



• Partner with sales operations to help build, launch and utilize a dashboard visible to our ecosystem distributors whilst having a full understanding of GDPR restrictions and limitations

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience in channel-focused roles, ideally within a reseller, distributor, MSP, or GSI, with responsibility for partner revenue, programs, or renewals.

• Demonstrated experience in partner-led renewal management, channel forecasting, and ecosystem program execution.

• Strong understanding of distribution models, partner compensation, deal lifecycle, vendor rankings and ecosystem health metrics. Ideal candidates will have strategic relationships which are in partnership with Palo Alto Networks current ecosystem in EMEA.

• Proven ability to influence partner and distributor stakeholders and drive performance improvements within a matrix environment.

• Expertise with Salesforce, Clari, and partner or distribution management tools.

• Track record of driving growth and operational excellence in a partner-centric environment.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Act as the highest level of technical authority. You will hold peer-to-peer conversations with Engineering and Customers to drive permanent resolution on complex architectural issues, ensuring supportability is a key consideration in organizational and product decisions
• AI & Automation Strategy: Drive AI-led workflow improvements and automation efforts across GCS. Your goal is to achieve specific, measurable outcomes including significant Case Avoidance and Case Deflection, while drastically reducing Time to Resolution (TTR) and Time to Connect (TTC)
• Champion Serviceability & Scalability: Influence the product development lifecycle by advocating for improved serviceability and scalability in new and existing products. Collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering to incorporate critical support requirements early in the design phase
• Engineer Enablement: Develop and deliver cutting-edge training programs, technical deep dives, and enablement content for our Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineers, ensuring the global team is ready to expertly support complex Cloud and SASE architectures
• Root Cause Elimination: Systematically analyze root causes of recurring, high-impact issues. Collaborate directly with Engineering to implement permanent product fixes and process improvements, minimizing customer impact and elevating the overall support experience

Required Qualifications

• Professional Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in technical support, engineering, or a related field within the networking and security industry
• Core Domain Expertise: Deep and comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), and complex LAN/WAN architectures
• Expertise in network security concepts and technologies, including firewalls, VPNs (IPSEC, SSL), PKI, and intrusion prevention systems
• Extensive, hands-on background in SASE and SD-WAN technologies.
• Cloud & Deployment Fluency: Significant exposure to solutions deployed across major Public Clouds (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and Private Clouds
• Proven track record of leading, managing, and implementing successful, high-impact technical projects
• Operational Background: Proven experience working in Security, Network, and/or IT Operations environments
• Experience developing and implementing Technical Support strategy and successfully mentoring Senior Technical Staff
• Automation & AI Skills: Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML concepts to operational workflows or support processes for tangible business outcomes
• Expertise with scripting languages (e.g., Python) for Automation and utilizing effective tools to achieve Case Avoidance and Deflection targets
• Soft Skills & Authority: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to both highly technical and non-technical executive audiences.
• Proven ability to influence product direction by effectively collaborating with Product Management and Engineering teams

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

You will work firsthand with our valued customers to address their complex post–sales concerns where analysis of situations or data requires an in–depth evaluation of many factors. You're a critical thinker in understanding the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. You'll enjoy networking with key contacts outside your own area of expertise, with a strong capability of detailing difficult technical issues to both non–technical and technical professionals.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with multi–functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, better working environments, and better cybersecurity. Your quick thinking and support to our clients provides the fast assistance they need to keep their environments secure - which means you'll need to move quickly, thoughtfully, and provide technical assistance as needed (often, in high pressure situations).

Your Impact

• Provide post sales technical support, configurations, troubleshooting, and standard methodologies to customers via phone, e–mail, and web
• Remote support, deployment and knowledge transfer
• Handle support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow–ups finished in a timely manner
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
• Work to reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other user documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing
• Responsible for reviewing user documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, problem solving guides, etc.
• Travel may be required to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution
• Work shoulder to shoulder with the Sales and Sales Engineering Teams

Your Experience

• BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of deep technical knowledge and technical support with a strong customer focus or related experience
• Advanced certifications such as CCIE/JNCIE/ CISSP– an advantage
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, strength with establishing relationships
• Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unparalleled networks with mixed media and protocols required
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well independently and in a team
• Self–disciplined, self–managed, self–motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
• Profound knowledge in networking protocols such as – TCP/IP, BGP4 (multi–homing), OSPF (multi–area), ISIS, Multicast, VOIP
• Expert working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including, VLANs, VLAN aggregation
• Experience with security (IPSEC, SSL–VPN, NAT, GRE)
• Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers
• Experience with Authentication Protocols a plus (Radius / TACACS)
• Strong history of deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting multi–vendor (Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet) firewall environments – PANW firewalls and VM–Series – A plus
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
• Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non–technical audiences, and explain their impact on business

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 seeking a Principal Researcher in Security Content Validation to lead the testing and validation of efficacy of detection rules. This role requires an expert-level Python coder with a deep background in advanced QA methodologies, dedicated to researching, designing, and implementing automation frameworks that ensure the highest fidelity and scalability of Security Content validation.

Your Impact

• This Principal-level role is central to securing our customers' cloud environments by driving innovative research into quality assurance and developing high-fidelity validation content.

• Designing, developing, and maintaining expert-level automated testing and validation frameworks (leveraging expert Python skills) to ensure the accuracy, and scalability of security detection rules and overall product stability.

• Researching and applying emerging QA technologies (e.g., AI/ML-driven testing) for security detection rules validation, including investigating complex failure modes and architectural weaknesses to develop innovative detection/prevention strategies (the "Secure QA Mindset")

• Establishing and enforcing best practices for high-fidelity security content validation, including rigorous test case creation and management for compliance standards and threat detection.

• Actively contributing to ongoing process enhancements in test automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and deployment practices, serving as the authority on quality process design.

• Mentorship: Serving as a technical leader, coaching and guiding QA engineers and researchers on advanced testing techniques and research methodologies.

• Communication: Clearly articulating complex quality metrics, research findings, and validation strategies to engineering teams, product management, and executive leadership.

• Bonus - Establishing industry thought leadership by publishing insightful blogs on security domain.

Your Experience

• Overall Experience: 8-10 years of experience in Quality Assurance, SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test), QA Research.

• Ideal - 5+ years of experience specifically designing and architecting test automation frameworks for complex systems, preferably in the security or cloud domain.

• Must Have - Expert-level proficiency in Python programming for building complex, scalable test automation frameworks, and security validation tools

• Must Have - Deep application of QA principles, including rigorous quality gates and functional policy testing, strong debugging skills in cloud native deployments, and exceptional written and verbal communication.

• Must Have - At least 3 years of hands-on experience in public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with an understanding of cloud resource configurations and security requirements.

• Highly Desirable - Very good understanding of Computer Networks, Cloud Networks, and Web-based protocols (like HTTP/S, REST) with a deep security understanding of vulnerabilities, exploits, and defensive techniques related to them.

• Highly Desirable - Experience with advanced QA concepts like combinatorial testing, model-based testing, or leveraging GenAI/LLM based automations for test generation or defect analysis.

• Highly Desirable - Familiarity with development tools (Git, CI/CD, bug tracking) and experience with technologies (SQL, BigQuery, JSON) for validation and data analysis..

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

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

Palo Alto Networks continues to build a world-class product management services portfolio and is looking for a Product Manager for the Network Security team. This role requires a strong leader who will be responsible for the Network Security Management product line. In addition to your own creativity, you will rely on interaction with customers, partners, sales, product managers, and cross-functional partners to understand requirements and needs. You will be expected to define and deliver competitive service offerings that help provide a more complete product experience for our customers. Other responsibilities include collaborating with Product Marketing, Technical Marketing Engineers to create product-related sales and marketing materials and evangelizing the services both internally and externally. Given the nature of your portfolio, your success will be highly dependent on how well you can interact with and guide cross-functional organizations within Palo Alto Networks, including Product, IT, Support, Professional Services, Consulting Engineers, Customer Success, Finance, Sales, and Operations.

Your Impact

• In-depth Data Analysis: Perform comprehensive, data-driven analysis encompassing a wide spectrum of customer deployments, diverse use cases, and intricate network topologies spanning small to large enterprise environments. This includes identifying key trends, patterns, and insights to inform product decisions and strategies.
• Champion Product Excellence: Drive and meticulously maintain exceptionally high standards for product quality, ensuring the long-term stability and unwavering reliability of both Prisma SD-WAN and the broader Prisma SASE platform. This involves proactive identification and mitigation of potential issues.
• Strategic Product Leadership: Define a clear and compelling product strategy aligned with market needs and technological advancements. Oversee the entire execution lifecycle, from initial concept to final delivery, and guarantee successful customer outcomes across all stages, including quoting, purchasing, activation, onboarding, configuration, ongoing visibility, proactive monitoring, and renewal.
• AI-Powered Innovation: Actively leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to drive significant innovation across WAN and LAN networking domains, as well as cloud-based services, throughout every phase of the product lifecycle, from initial design to continuous improvement and optimization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster and maintain strong, effective collaborative relationships with engineering teams to guide development, Technical Assistance Center (TAC) for efficient support, customer support organizations for seamless issue resolution, and sales teams to enable successful customer acquisition and expansion.
• Proactive Test Strategy Assurance: Rigorously ensure the development and meticulous review of comprehensive test strategies specifically tailored for diverse SD-WAN deployment scenarios. This proactive approach is critical to guaranteeing consistently positive post-sales experiences and achieving desired customer outcomes.
• PoC/PoV Oversight and Enhancement: Critically review Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) plans, providing constructive feedback and guidance to ensure these engagements effectively highlight the key and differentiating capabilities of the products, demonstrating tangible business value to prospective customers.
• Strategic Customer Engagement: Actively engage with customers at various levels, cultivating strong and lasting relationships through impactful executive briefings, passionate product evangelism initiatives, and thorough requirements gathering sessions to deeply understand their evolving needs and challenges.

Your Experience

• Minimum 15+ years in product management or technical expertise in the network management space required
• Drive to own full product lifecycle, designing new, innovative, and disruptive products with a customer-centric approach
• Technical Expertise:
• Strong understanding of SD-WAN, Switching, Wireless, distributed networks, Telecom networks, Cloud and Multi-cloud environments.
• Proficiency in L3 and L2 protocols, including OSPF, BGP, Multicast, LACP, BFD, LLDP, ECMP, VLAN, STP, EVPN, and VXLAN.
• Solid knowledge of networking architectures: single and multi-data center, spine-leaf, private and public cloud, and virtualization technologies.
• Familiarity with high availability and redundancy concepts, including HA architectures and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience working with a cross-functional, cross-geographical team
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable in an agile environment of rapid iteration, facilitating collaborative work sessions with multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to comprehend complex product requirements
• Excellent people skills, team mentality
• Demonstrable track record of success

• BS/MS or BS/MBA or equivalent experience required

Palo Alto Networks offers a portfolio of services to assist you with the implementation of your next-generation firewall for prevention and detection of today’s most sophisticated cyber attacks. Support, Consulting and Education services are available to help you get the maximum protection and value out of
your investment and in a range of options designed to fit your specific requirements, regardless of size or project complexity.

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

As a Senior Technical Support Engineeer-Focused Services-XDR, you will be heavily engaged to personalize their customers’ experience and ensure a successful Palo Alto Networks product experience in Cortex space. In this role, you will develop a working partnership to mitigate risks and troubleshoot to resolve technical issues for their customers. You will partner with the Technical Account Manager to effectively become a virtual part of their customers’ teams. You will engage both proactively and reactively with the customer to address any Cortex XDR technical needs. You will also provide escalation management for any technical issues encountered with their customers’ enterprise deployment, resulting in faster time to value.

Your Impact

• Respond to user-reported issues in adherence to established Service Level Agreements
• Triage customer reported issues and respond to them via ticketing system, phone or remote sessions
• Perform advanced troubleshooting at the application level and OS level, using your knowledge and relevant expertise
• Identify the area of fault (code, environment, or configuration) and work with the appropriate team(s) to implement the fix
• Provide timely feedback on the development process on customer-reported product problems
• Document actions to effectively communicate information internally and to customers
• Facilitate root cause investigations and manage the implementation of corrective and preventative measures

Your Experience

• BE/B.Tech engineering, equivalent technical degree or equivalent military experience required
• 6-8 years of relevant experience with strong communication and customer service skills
• Required experience with Windows OS, Linux OS and macOS based applications (Installation, troubleshooting, Debugging)
• Endpoint security technologies experience (XDR, SOAR, SIEM, etc.)
• Experience understanding malware, exploits, operating system structure, and behavior
• Experience with Android OS based applications (Installation, troubleshooting, Debugging)
• Strong experience with MS environment (SCCM, GPO, AD, MSSQL, IIS)
• Experience with EndPoint security software is a plus (Antivirus, DLP, IPS, NAC)
• Knowledge of SIEM, vulnerability management tools, and firewalls

Good to have skills:

• Experience with bash scripting OR Python is a plus
• Strong ability to independently troubleshoot, reproduce issues and identify possible workarounds in broad, complex, and unique environments with mixed applications and protocols required
• Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure is a plus
• Knowledge of VDI (VMWare Horizon, Citrix XenApp, and XenDesktop) is a plus

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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