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Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish overall business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives.
• Negotiate with and influence decision-making reaching the senior executive level
• Identify and resolve unique situations of substantial significance in user interface or interaction design
• Allocate resources, responsibly and apply creativity to enhancing user and customer experiences across digital and physical products and services
• Lead the development of user experience strategies that resonate with target audiences.
• Support and mentor less-experienced roles to provide an example of innovation, excellence, and day-to-day learning

Expected Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

WhereExperience Strategydefines theand

This is not just a UX strategy or systems design role—it’s both. You will lead the practice of Experience Architecture: the structuring of journeys, flows, navigation, taxonomy, and interaction models into a unified, extensible system. Your work will ensure that every interaction fits together to form a complete, coherent whole—one that reflects our brand, reinforces behavior, and reduces experience entropy as we scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect the Experience Ecosystem
  

• Lead Horizontal Experience Strategy
  Architect critical cross-product journeys (e.g., Account, Wallet, Rewards) that unify the customer experience across silos.

• Own and Govern Taxonomy & Information Architecture
  Partner with Content Design, Product Design, and Engineering to establish scalable IA systems and navigational models.

• Advance Service Design & System Mapping
  Connect frontstage flows to backstage systems and operational logic; drive service blueprinting across the product lifecycle.

• Drive CX Improvements
  Identify and resolve systemic customer experience issues across surfaces, workflows, and product areas through architectural interventions—not just interface refinements.

• Partner with Design Systems
  Collaborate to encode architectural logic into reusable components and interaction frameworks, ensuring real behavior is reflected—not just UI consistency.

• Transform Experience Delivery
  Work with Product Ops and PMO to embed architectural checkpoints into planning, roadmapping, and SDLCprocesses—acceleratingdelivery while protecting experience integrity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in experience design, UX architecture, or systems design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating strategic impact.

• Proven leadership in structuring complex digital ecosystems and scaling design systems.

• Deep expertise in journey mapping, taxonomy design, interaction modeling, and platform strategy.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and levels.

• Experience working in large-scale, matrixed organizations with a focus on platform thinking and design maturity.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with enterprise platforms, developer tools, or internal design infrastructure.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards, localization, and inclusive design practices.

• Strategic mindset with a bias for action and a passion for enabling great design at scale.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

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

Your Impact

• Enablement of the TAC teams - Assist with both ad hoc Q&A and structured training throughout the year

• Ownership of critical issues. This doesn’t always mean being responsible for the case, the focus is on the technical driver of the case the customer calls about. This usually means working with the TAC case owner and engineering on a replication or verification, sending guidelines and communicating updates

• New product development - combine the responsibility of continuing our state-of-the-art technical knowledge and skills learned from prior technical support, an Enablement engineer will identify supportability and usability requirements for new products during the design phase as well as post GA via enhancement requests

• Develop and deliver training materials for TAC. Training is a key component of the day-to-day success of support. An Enablement engineer is responsible for staying up to date with technical details on Palo Alto Networks new products and industry in general and sharing those details with TAC via white papers, BBLs, or TOIs

• Develop tools for TAC – For better visibility and troubleshooting

• Filling in the gaps. Sometimes there are opportunities to “catch” a problem before it escalates. Our team is positioned to identify or help in these unplanned projects that result in a better customer experience, cost reduction or better security

Your Experience

• Experience: 7+ years in support roles, working directly with large global customers and partners in addition to internal teams (such as DevOps, Engineering, QA, Product managers..)

• Experience as an Enablement Engineer or an Escalations Engineer is a plus

• Experience working with Public Cloud provider technologies and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba, etc..).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Scripting skills (JS/Python/Powershell)

• Strong proficiency in both Linux and Windows operating systems

• Kubernetes implementation and troubleshooting experience is required

• Experience training internal technical teams is a plus

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing 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 on providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $123200 - $199100/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, cybersecurity researchers, AI application researchers and infrastructure software engineers
• Design and build an innovative and solid products to ensure our customers can use AI service securely
• Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Implement real-time security services to customers
• Work with PLM on new feature requirement
• Work with QA and DevOps on new release deployment

Your Experience

• Solid golang/python programming skills
• Solid knowledge on HTTP 1.1/HTTP2 protocols and gRPC
• Profound knowledge on web service proxy technology especially on envoy and web assembly
• Experience in designing large distributed system and web services in the cloud
• Deep knowledge in GCP platform is a plus
• Familiar with major CSP LLM foundation models is a plus
• The candidate should be a good problem solver
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required

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 $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

• Serve as a key contributor to the development, maturation, and innovation of Unit 42’s cloud security consulting services.

• Lead and deliver complex cloud security assessments covering architecture, configuration, identity, monitoring, and threat detection across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

• Evaluate cloud network architectures, including perimeter protections, VPC/VNet segmentation, API gateways, ingress/egress controls, and cloud-native security services.

• Analyze cloud logging, telemetry, and monitoring coverage; identify gaps in detection and alerting; and provide actionable recommendations to improve visibility, SIEM/XDR integration, and threat-hunting effectiveness.

• Assess cloud identity and access management (IAM) design, including federation, least privilege models, role delegation, conditional access, privilege escalation paths, and MFA enforcement across cloud providers.

• Utilize cloud-native CLIs, SDKs, and APIs to perform deep technical validation of configurations, controls, and security posture.

• Assess multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud deployments by reviewing interoperability, dependencies, and security impacts between cloud services and on-prem infrastructure.

• Develop strategic cloud security roadmaps that align technical recommendations with a client’s broader business objectives, resource constraints, and long-term security transformation initiatives.

• Integrate Palo Alto Networks cloud platforms (Prisma Cloud, Prisma SASE, Cortex XSIAM, and Precision AI) into consulting engagements to drive differentiated value and help customers enhance their security posture.

• Engage with prospective clients in a pre-sales capacity to uncover cloud security pain points, evaluate architectural weaknesses, and position Unit 42 solutions to key outcomes.

• Support delivery teams in overcoming technical objections and effectively tying cloud security recommendations to business risk, operational impact, and customer strategic goals.

• Build and maintain long-term executive relationships, serving as a trusted strategic advisor for cloud security and Zero Trust transformation initiatives.

• Lead the development and delivery of cloud security enablement content to elevate consulting capabilities across Unit 42.

• Partner with Palo Alto Networks product development teams to provide structured feedback on features, customer patterns, and cloud security trends that influence the roadmap and delivery experience.

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards

• 6+ years of professional services and consulting experience and 3+ years of Director (or and equivalent Senior Manager) experience leading consulting delivery teams is highly preferred

• Experience managing a diverse team of business and technical consultants

• Cloud Security-related certifications preferred

• Hands-on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).

• Deep experience within the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) technology or advisory/consulting space.

• Strong fluency in the application of Virtual Machines, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and other public cloud technical infrastructure concepts.

• Possess a deep technical knowledge in Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)

• Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)

• Knowledge of the technical nuances related to SD-WAN and SASE solutions and their application to Cloud Environment access solutions.

• 10+ years in developing, strengthening and expanding client relationships

• Knowledge of how to integrate command-line interfaces or scripting tools as a part of a risk assessment or remediation in cloud environments is a plus.

• Rich understanding of how Enterprise’s use and struggle using infrastructure as code and continuous integration tools such as Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Packer, Pulumi, Puppet, Saltstack and Terraform or CSP tools such as CloudFormation, Resource Manager or Deployment Manager.

• Ability to scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals

• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 25%)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security OR equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations

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 $183000/YR - $252000/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

As a Principal Engineer, you will be an innovator who can challenge the status quo, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and architect elegant solutions to complex platform-level problems. You will have a massive impact on thousands of engineers by shaping the technical direction of the team and mentoring other engineers to foster a culture of engineering excellence.

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara, California headquarters campus.

Your Impact

• You will be responsible for building the next generation of platforms that accelerate product development across the company. The core problems we are solving are foundational and will have a massive impact. If these challenges excite you, you are a great fit for our team.

• Simplify and Automate Onboarding: Design and implement streamlined platforms to radically simplify new customer and new region onboarding, reducing time-to-value and operational complexity.

• Build a Scalable Workflow Service: Own the creation and operation of a "Workflow as a Service" platform, providing reliable, scalable orchestration for various product teams by running technologies like multi-tenant Temporal at scale.

• Champion Cost Optimization: Develop a Central Cost Platform that provides a holistic inventory service, enabling product teams to "shift-left" on cost awareness, eliminate unnecessary infrastructure spending, and auto-remediate regressions.

• Deliver Agentic Compute as a Service: Create a robust agentic compute platform for running standalone agents, providing a secure and vetted environment with managed control plane servers for various agentic workloads.

Your Experience

• We are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers and can effectively balance the needs of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent military experience.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in building large-scale, distributed systems.

• Proven track record of building SaaS applications and being part of several SaaS release cycles.

• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, or Java, with a proven ability to pick up a new language with ease.

• Deep experience with cloud-native technologies including containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.

• Decent understanding of core distributed systems principles. You should have an ability to continuously map problems to first principles.

• Familiarity with modern SaaS release models, including feature flags.

• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP or AWS) is strongly recommended.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring at least two engineers in their career, providing technical guidance, and helping them achieve promotion.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a distributed environment.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes. Since we are a platform team and use it extensively, deep K8s knowledge will help you stand out.

• Familiarity with agentic infrastructure and a basic curiosity on how to build and manage intelligent agents.

• Experience building applications with temporal.

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 $173,000 - $230,000/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

• Join the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions

• Build and cultivate strong customer relationships, driving business growth within the region.

• Partner with the core sales team to align customer strategies and engagements with Cortex and Cloud business objectives.

• Take full ownership of leading strategic sales campaigns, sales forecasting, utilizing in-depth knowledge of sales cycles from initial contact through procurement.

• Engage in deep technical discussions beyond standard sales presentations and pitches; while translating complex technical cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions for customers.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales engineers, to provide tailored customer-centric solutions.

• Partner with Alliances to develop joint strategies, enhance customer engagement and deliver innovative solutions for existing and prospective clients.

• Travel domestically as needed to meet with customers and attend key business events.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of field sales experience focusing on key customer accounts and delivering value to Enterprise or Major-level accounts in the cybersecurity industry.

• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers.

• Experience selling SIEM, EDR, XDR, SOC and SOAR solutions is highly preferred.

• Established trusted relationships with CIOs and CISOs with the ability to influence and drive strategic conversations

• Expertise in applying complex solution sales methodologies to drive results.

• Experience working with channel partners and a deep understanding of a channel-centric go-to-market strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment while collaborating effectively with sales engineers and cross-functional teams.

• Experience operating in a continuous adoption, expansion, and upsell sales motion within a matrixed sales organization is preferred

• Willingness to travel domestically as necessary to meet business needs.

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. 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 key member of Layer-7 Security group, you will be responsible for designing and developing security features on the next-generation firewalls. You will work with product management on user 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 throughout the entire software development cycle.

Your Impact

• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment

• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions

• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture

• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test

• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offering to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality

• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness

• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes

• Foster innovation in the organization

Your Experience

• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications
• Experience in cloud technologies like Kafka, Elastic Search, SQL, Google Big Query or equivalent
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking is highly desirable
• Experience in GCP or AWS is a plus
• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• 5+ year hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following: GO/Java(Primary), Python; Working knowledge of C is highly desirable
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude

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.