Jobs at Palo Alto in United States, Washington

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build innovative, scalable software products to ensure our customers can use AI securely
• Own new features/functionality from start to finish. Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test. Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS Model Security
• Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch reliability, availability, and performance
• Develop expertise in new technologies and keep up with the rapidly evolving AI security landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in at least one programming language such as modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc), Go, Java, C#, or C++
• 8+ years experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
• Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience with a major cloud provider like GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana is a plus
• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and convey ideas effectively
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

Salary 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 - $237500/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

• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure software engineers to ensure the success of the Prisma AIRS organization

• Design and build innovative and solid products to ensure our customers can use AI securely

• Own new features/functionality from start to finish. Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test. Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable.

• Design, build, and operate production security services

• Develop expertise in new technologies

Your Experience

• Expertise in at least one strongly typed programming language (Go (preferred!), or Java, C#, C++) or modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc)

• Experience writing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests

• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud

• Deep knowledge in the public cloud (GCP, AWS, or OCI) is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub is a plus

• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support

• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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 $135000 - $155,000/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

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

• 3+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering or graduate of Palo Alto Networks Academy Program

• Skilled in at least one of the following Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE.

• 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

• Understanding of 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 $173000 - $237500/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.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build innovative, scalable software products to ensure our customers can use AI securely
• Own new features/functionality from start to finish. Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test. Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure engineers to shape the future of Prisma AIRS Model Security
• Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch reliability, availability, and performance
• Develop expertise in new technologies and keep up with the rapidly evolving AI security landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-8 years in the following areas
• Expertise in at least one programming language such as modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc), Go, Java, C#, or C++
• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
• Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience with a major cloud provider like GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana is a plus
• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and convey ideas effectively
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly
• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military 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 $126000/YR - $204500/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

• Define and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for multiple complex, highly distributed backend systems.
• Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of innovative, cross-functional product initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure for a global enterprise.
• Influence technical and product roadmaps by collaborating with senior leaders, product managers, and engineers across multiple organizations.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader, providing mentorship and raising the technical bar for other senior and staff-level engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Pioneer and evangelize best practices for software development, operational excellence, and architectural patterns that impact entire product lines.

Your Experience

• Deep and proven experience (12+ years) of architecting, building, and launching complex, large-scale distributed systems with significant business impact.
• Expert-level proficiency in modern Python or at least one strongly typed programming language such as Go, Java, or C++.
• Deep expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a track record of building highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrable experience operating mission-critical systems in production with stringent SLAs, including on-call leadership and incident response.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem, including a deep understanding of its internals and operational best practices.
• Experience with machine learning (ML/MLOps), security, or data engineering would be a significant advantage.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and possess the ability to drive clarity and alignment on technical direction in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

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 $212,000 - $240,000/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

• Collaborate with product managers, frontend software engineers, product designers, and infrastructure software engineers to ensure the success of the Prisma AIRS organization

• Design and build innovative and solid products to ensure our customers can use AI securely

• Own new features/functionality from start to finish. Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test. Ensure that applications are production-ready, scalable, and reliable.

• Design, build, and operate production security services

• Develop expertise in new technologies

Your Experience

• Expertise in at least one strongly typed programming language (Go (preferred!), or Java, C#, C++) or modern Python (type hints, Pydantic, etc)

• Experience writing comprehensive unit and end-to-end tests

• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud

• Deep knowledge in the public cloud (GCP, AWS, or OCI) is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and GitHub is a plus

• Experience partnering with front end engineers (collaborate on schema required to power a UI, for example) is a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to collaborate and rally support

• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

• Ready to understand and dissect new technology stacks quickly

• Excited about working in an agile and fast paced environment.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience or equivalent military experience

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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 $135000 - $155,000/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 Career

You are required to exceed your quota, obtain/maintain subject matter expertise, create/update detailed written plans, and regularly present to a variety of audiences (large and small, live and virtual).

Your Impact

• Ability to work in partnership with your respective geography’s leadership to engage the SASE portfolio to customers, partners, and colleagues
• Perform high-level sales planning, leading to accurate forecasting of the business
• Build a fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, security tools or network technologies
• Bring to bear all cross-functional resources to achieve your quota
• Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Palo Alto Networks products and services
• Conduct in-person sessions, webinars and learning materials that can be consumed by the appropriate audience
• Identify cross-selling and up-selling opportunities within accounts
• Educate customers and partners on the modern network security landscape
• Establish relationships with and sell through channel partners
• Travel 50% + throughout the Western US, and to company-wide meetings

• 7+ years of field sales selling SASE or SD-WAN for a multinational organization
• Above quota sales experience in a high-tempo culture
• Experience selling network infrastructure-based security appliances including, but not limited to - Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches, SD-WAN
• Practical experience working with routing and switching products that will be installed adjacent to our appliances
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbally
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market approach
• 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 $256000 - $352000/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.