Jobs at Palo Alto in United States, Houston

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

Your Impact

• Leadership & People Management
  

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers in Santa Clara, CA.
    

  • Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and high performance.
    

  • Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development of engineers.
    

• Technical Delivery
  

  • Own end-to-end delivery of critical components in Cortex Cloud.
    

  • Work with architects and product managers to design scalable and secure solutions.
    

  • Ensure best practices in cloud-native development, CI/CD, and site reliability.
    

  • Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, technical guidance, and architectural decisions.
    

• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  

  • Partner with global engineering teams in the U.S., Israel, and other locations.
    

  • Collaborate with product management, UX, and customer support to align delivery with customer needs.
    

  • Communicate progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs to stakeholders.
    

• Innovation & Scale
  

  • Champion modern development practices in microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
    

  • Ensure security and compliance are embedded into the development lifecycle.

  • Continuously optimize performance, cost efficiency, and scalability of cloud services.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of software development experience, with at least 3+ years in engineering management.

• Proven track record of building and scaling SaaS/cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

• Strong Knowledge in Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native development.
  

• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, or security platforms.
  

• Previous experience in cybersecurity, observability, or large-scale multi-tenant platforms is a plus.
  

• Leadership Skills:
  

  • Ability to recruit, build, and retain top engineering talent.

  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across global teams.

  • Results-oriented mindset with a passion for delivering impact.

  • Ability to connect day-to-day engineering execution with long-term business goals, make tradeoffs, and prioritize what delivers the most impact.

  • Skill in guiding teams through organizational, technical, or product shifts while keeping morale and focus high.

  • Comfort with incomplete information, making timely calls, and course-correcting when needed — critical in fast-moving cloud security environments.

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field.

At Palo Alto Networks, you’ll work on industry-leading security platforms with a mission to make the world safer. In this role, you will:

• Shape and scale teams building Cortex Cloud services.
  

• Drive innovation in cloud security and next-gen SOC platforms.
  

• Work with talented, diverse, global teams solving some of the hardest problems in cybersecurity.

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 $185000 - $290000 /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:

● Exciting opportunity to be a leader on the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions.

● Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing sales specialists to achieve and exceed revenue targets.

● Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning and a customer-centric approach within the sales team.

● Drive strategic sales initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities. ● Engage in executive-level discussions with CIOs and CISOs, translating complex cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions.

● Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including sales engineers, marketing, and alliances, to support deal execution and customer success.

● Develop and implement data-driven sales strategies, leveraging forecasting and pipeline management tools to optimize team performance.

Your Experience

● 10+ years of field sales experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

● Proven ability to lead and develop high-performance sales teams in a high-growth environment with large quota/deals

● Strong understanding of complex solution sales methodologies, value selling and enterprise buying processes with operational discipline

● Experience selling SIEM, EDR, or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred.

● Established relationships with key security decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs) and the ability to drive strategic conversations.

● Expertise in channel and partner sales strategies, with a deep understanding of go-to-market models.

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed sales organization with a focus on continuous expansion and customer success

● “Whatever it takes” attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance

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 $322000 - $443500/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Impact

• As a Major Account Manager, you will drive and orchestrate large complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers
• Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
• Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
• Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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 $255,000 - $351,000/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Impact

• You will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for prospects and our customers
• Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectively position the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
• Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
• Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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 $255000/yr - $351000/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

Your Career

As a Domain Consultant for SOC Transformation you will be the expert for our Cortex portfolio, a Next-Gen AI-powered security operations platform. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives. You evangelize our industry leading solutions in Security Intelligence and Automation, XDR, Attack Surface Management, SOAR and Incident Response that establish Palo Alto Networks as a customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area

• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership

• As the main technical point of contact for Cortex, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs.

• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition

• Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities

• Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area

• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation

• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture

• Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions

• Help our customers build and develop further their services around Cortex solutions

• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape

• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions

• Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance

• Implement organizational policies & help others adopt

• Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers

Your Experience

• 6+ years experience in Security Operations or pre-sales/sales engineering within SIEM, SOAR, SOC, and/or XDR/EDR environments

• IBM QRadar design, deployment, and/or pre-sales experience highly desirable

• Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude

• Solid understanding of Security Operations Center processes

• Advanced knowledge of SIEM and/or SOAR solutions

• Scripting experience is a plus - Python 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/yr to $273,000/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

• You will own revenue expansion within Palo Alto Networks’ largest clients
• You will drive and orchestrate complex sales cycles and work with our internal partners and teams to best serve the customer
• Your consultative selling experience will identify business challenges and create solutions for our customers
• Understand the competitive landscape and customer needs so you can effectivelyposition the portfolio of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Create clear goals and complete accurate forecasting through developing a detailed territory plan
• Leverage prospect stories to create a compelling value proposition with insights into value for that specific account
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Travel as necessary within your territory, and to company-wide meetings

Your Experience

• Experience and knowledge of SaaS-based architectures, ideally in a networking and/or security industry - SASE technology is preferred
• Demonstrated experience selling complex solutions, value selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• Technical aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• Identifies problems, reviews data, determines the root causes, and provides scalable solutions
• Cultivate relationships with our channel partners to bring channel-centric go-to-market approach for our customers
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the full sales cycle and the ability to follow a structured sales process
• Ability to take a holistic approach to problem solving by understanding the bigger picture, and considering complex interrelationships and outcomes
• Excellent time management skills, and work with high levels of autonomy and self-direction

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 $288,000/YR - 396,000/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.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

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

• Strong understanding of data networking, security architectures, and modern cloud computing environments

• 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 $198000 - $273000/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.