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

Your Career As a Principal Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex SOC transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM
• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform
• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization
• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform
• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats
• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy
• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation
• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement
• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities

Your Experience

• A proven track record in modernizing Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to achieve automation, AI-driven detection, and measurable improvements in MTTD/MTTR
• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments
• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows
• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence
• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules
• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus
• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus
• Must be able to travel up to 30%

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. 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. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of 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 $163000/YR - $224500/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 will join a dynamic and fast-paced team of seasoned fellow engineers designing and developing multi-tiered applications in a rapidly growing company. As a Principal AI Engineer, you will leverage your extensive experience to act as the trailblazer, helping us build and innovate enterprise-grade full-stack systems with a specific focus on Generative AI transformation.

We are looking for a highly hands-on, extremely technical leader to architect the next generation of our internal and external business applications. You will move beyond traditional software engineering to design intelligent, agentic workflows that revolutionize our Go-To-Market (GTM) processes.

Your Impact

• Lead the architecture and implementation of a Proxy-First "AI Gateway" intermediary layer to ensure seamless LLM vendor independence.

• Design and build a unified API endpoint to abstract LLM complexities and provide centralized control for access and security.

• Implement comprehensive GenAI observability pipelines to track trace-level data, prompt inputs/outputs, and model latency.

• Create architecture to optimize performance and expense by intelligently routing simpler queries to cost-effective models.

• Integrate observability data into the development cycle to identify real-time bottlenecks, high-latency chains, and model drift.

• Institute and promote innovative thinking by incorporating Agentic AI, designing sophisticated Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) workflows.

• Apply GenAI to complex Go-To-Market (GTM) business logic, automating critical workflows like customer support and entitlement platforms.

• Pioneer "LLM as a Judge" testing methodologies to automate quality assurance of system outputs (correctness, tone, and helpfulness).

• Build robust guardrails to filter inputs and outputs, preventing PII exposure, offensive content, and prompt injection attacks.

• Develop detection mechanisms, including keyword filtering, behavioral analysis, and adversarial training, to protect model instructions from manipulation.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of overall IT system architecture, design, development, and deployment experience.

• Proven track record leading technical teams in Agile/Scrum environments for large-scale implementations with aggressive timelines.

• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to design workflows for Go-To-Market (GTM), sales, or support operations.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts to senior leadership.

• Extensive knowledge in building modern applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Llama 3, GPT-4, and Anthropic.

• Deep experience building and maintaining highly observable GenAI systems, including proficiency with tracing and evaluation tools (e.g., LangSmith, Arize, HoneyHive, or custom OpenTelemetry).

• Deep experience with Multi-Agent systems, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, and orchestration frameworks.

• Experience establishing "Golden Datasets" for ground truth testing and performing comparative analysis across different models.

• Expert-level proficiency in Python; familiarity with Java or Node.js for enterprise integration is a plus.

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 $167000 - $270500/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

Architect/Sr. Principal Engineer, Backend - Cortex Cloud (Posture Security)

Your Impact

• Lead the architectural vision and design for complex, large-scale backend systems and microservices that form the backbone of our Cortex Cloud Posture Security offerings.

• Develop and implement high-quality, resilient, and scalable backend services primarily using Go and Python.

• Drive system design discussions and decisions, ensuring solutions meet current Posture Security needs while being adaptable for future growth and technological advancements in cloud security.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, frontend engineers, security researchers, and SRE, to define, design, and ship new features and platform enhancements for Cortex Cloud Posture Security.

• Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning within the Posture Security team.

• Define and evangelize best practices for backend development, testing, and deployment within the organization, particularly as they apply to cloud-native security solutions.

• Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges and production issues, ensuring the reliability and performance of our Cortex Cloud Posture Security services.

• Contribute to and lead code reviews, design reviews, and architectural reviews related to Posture Security components.

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends in cloud security, backend development, and posture management, evaluating and recommending their adoption where appropriate.

• Optionally, leverage your understanding of UI development and user experience to contribute to a more holistic product design and improved collaboration with frontend teams working on the Cortex Cloud interface.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in backend software development, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, distributed systems, preferably in a cloud security context.

• Deep expertise in Go and/or Python for backend development.

• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, including microservices, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems patterns.

• Proven experience with system design, data modeling, and API design (RESTful, gRPC).

• Experience with various database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and caching solutions.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with a strong emphasis on security best practices within these environments.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor engineers.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with a knack for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

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

Nice to Have

• Understanding of UI technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js) and how backend systems support frontend applications for displaying complex security data.

• Deep experience with cybersecurity, specifically Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), or related cloud security domains.

• Contributions to open-source projects related to cloud security or backend infrastructure.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST, SOC2) and their implications for cloud security products.

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 $225,000 - 250,000. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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

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

Your Career

As a Design Verification engineer on the ASIC team, you will ensure that the ASICs in our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products meet or exceed industry-leading requirements for features, performance, and reliability. You will define verification methodologies, architect test benches, write test plans, specify coverage, write tests, and debug. You will work on diverse platforms including simulation, emulation, formal verification, and silicon validation.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with engineers in software, architecture, design, and verification teams to create comprehensive pre-silicon verification plans across simulation, emulation, and formal verification
• Plan and execute every aspect of simulation test plans using sophisticated coverage-driven, constrained-random methodologies
• Develop flows, methodologies, and infrastructure for emulation - Create, run, and debug emulation tests in close collaboration with system architects, software engineers, and ASIC designers
• Define new tools and methodologies to continuously improve quality and velocity
• Create powerful programs in Python to automate triage, coverage closure, and metrics-driven verification

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required or equivalent military experience required - MSEE preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience in ASIC design verification
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASIC products from concept to mass production
• Expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM
• Technical strength in the following areas is required
  • Defining test plans, including comprehensive adversarial testing
  • Developing rich functional coverage models
  • Creating powerful and scalable test benches
  • Implementing sophisticated self-checking infrastructure with reference models and scoreboards
  • Developing reusable constrained-random tests
  • Debugging failures
  • Closing coverage
• Experience in the following areas is preferred
  • Networking and cyber security
  • Formal property verification
  • Silicon validation - bringup, test, debug, and regression
  • Creating models in Python and C/C++
  • Writing driver code in C
• Skilled in writing powerful, modular, and scalable programs in Python, Perl, and UNIX shell to automate verification tasks, especially regression testing
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in planning, debugging complex failures, closing metrics-driven tasks, driving vendors, and reporting status
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills

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 $235000 - $260000/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 Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex SOC transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM
• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform
• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization
• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform
• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats
• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy
• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation
• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement
• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities

Your Experience

• A proven track record in modernizing Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to achieve automation, AI-driven detection, and measurable improvements in MTTD/MTTR
• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments
• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows
• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence
• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules
• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus
• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus
• Must be able to travel up to 30%

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. 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. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of 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 $163000/YR - $204,000/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.

We are looking for a decisive executor and operational leader who operates as an individual contributor to align with our Commercial sales segment. You will be responsible for driving, managing, and measuring the on-the-ground delivery of Sales Planning frameworks, translating high-level strategy into tangible, tactical sales motions, and operating as an integral partner to sales leadership with direct support from the extended internal and external ecosystem.

This role will be specifically responsible for:

• Healthcare Center of Excellence PMO: Create a community for our Commercial Healthcare sellers. Establish best practices on driving demand through BDR/marketing and scaling through Healthcare partners. Act as the central liaison to enable team with cross functional teams’ support.

• Renewals Acceleration: Drive strategic planning and execution motions to maximize renewal rates and identify expansion opportunities within the existing customer base. Build out & execute a product and soft skill enablement plan for renewals managers and renewals reps. Manage WW Renewals Big Rocks by partnering with the IT team. Drive the rhythm of business, executive communications and serve as the connector of different renewal teams.
• Partner with sales leaders in regular selling motions to amplify portfolio selling best practices for customer-focused outcomes (vs. point product selling) in Commercial accounts. The account and opportunity planning framework you oversee fuels portfolio selling and “big deal motion” with a multi-year perspective from generating big ideas to deal closure, mitigating risk, and increasing win rate.

Your Impact

• Directly apply expertise in the Commercial sales process, methodology, and opportunity development to execute and amplify proven sales motions on a day-to-day basis, translating best practices into immediate field action.

• Drive the daily operationalization of the Healthcare Center of Excellence (CoE). Partner with Marketing, Industry, and Field Teams to ensure the direct delivery of vertical-specific messaging, current case studies, and scalable sales plays to the Commercial team for immediate use.

• Own the tactical execution plan to accelerate Renewals performance. Partner with Customer Success and Sales Leaders to manage and enforce pipeline hygiene, actively identify and mitigate churn risks, and ensure the successful execution of upsell/cross-sell opportunities within the renewal cycle.

• Lead and facilitate regular, high-impact territory planning and opportunity review sessions. Ensure these reviews translate directly into defined, measurable short-term and long-term action plans for sales teams.

• Act as the hands-on liaison to facilitate intra-team collaboration. Ensure the precise and timely alignment of CoE resources (content, SMEs) to critical, in-flight opportunities to drive deal progression.

• Cultivate and maintain high-trust relationships with sales leaders and teams through a high-touch, operational partnership approach. Consult, advise, and directly support sales execution toward the achievement of quarterly and annual goals.

• Translate data insights into immediate course corrections and execution adjustments. Proactively identify leading indicators of business health and address operational gaps to amplify desired results and drive predictability.

• Business and Compliance Execution: Apply necessary business acumen, including deep operational understanding of Healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements, to directly support the creation of compelling, compliant customer business cases and final proposals.

• Apply critical thinking and a consultative approach to influence sales behavior and tactical execution across teams without formal reporting authority, ensuring adoption of best practices.

• Develop, manage, and evolve program impact reporting with a focus on leading indicators of business health, actionable renewal rates, and verifiable growth and bookings outcomes for the specific verticals.

• Ensure Commercial sales and customer success execution plans are directly linked to and support the tactical realization of the organization's transformational initiatives and strategies.

• Actively participate in and drive the execution of key Commercial sales development programs and forums (e.g., Business Value Consulting engagements, Sales Advisory Boards), ensuring program concepts are translated into field reality.

Your Experience

Professional sales experience with demonstrated proficiency in large, complex accounts with a customer-centric, value-driven selling approach

• Adept at mapping and navigating complex deals and sales cycles

• Proven ability to assess and align to customer business drivers to create business cases that support portfolio, platform or services sales and long term customer success

• Understanding of relevant business, financial acumen, cybersecurity industry and market experience

• Experience mapping Commercial accounts via deep discovery of functional areas, stakeholder alignment, and pathways to connect disparate perspectives toward consensus

• Demonstrated sales leadership, coaching and sales enablement skills and experience

• Strategic mindset with strong problem solving, analysis, and critical thinking skills

• Skilled at activating data-driven initiatives enabling sales teams to sell broadly into accounts with programmatic structure

• Facilitate insightful, motivating and collaborative sales strategy sessions including account planning, territory strategy, opportunity level reviews, executive briefings, pre-call plans, etc.

• Executive presence and consultative approach

• Mentoring/Coaching and Leadership Development Experience

• Highly motivated, energetic, inclusive, self-starter who demonstrates leadership, adaptability, flexibility and integrity

• Ability to travel up to 25%

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 $120,000 - $193,500/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

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch product managers to expand the team. As a certifications manager of global certifications at Palo Alto Networks, you will play an instrumental role in attaining many certifications across our product line. Certifications are of high value as they enable our products to be sold into many key markets around the world. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating all activities related to the product certifications, as well as individually contributing much of the content required to obtain these certifications.

Your Impact

• Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Engineering and other stakeholders to develop certification strategies and execute in a timely manner, ensuring alignment of certification strategies and execution plans to business and product imperatives

• Own and drive all aspects of certification projects from start to finish with an eye for detail and accuracy.

• Understand complex technical security architectures (including cloud architecture) and apply that to certification and compliance projects as needed.

• Effectively communicate with all invested areas of the organization and management stakeholders, from engineering to sales

• Develop a solid technical understanding of the product line to speak fluently with consultants, certification agencies, and more to achieve certifications with a few additional resources as possible

• Perform basic product testing and certifications documentation development to ensure success during the certification process

Your Experience

• At least 5-8 years of total experience in Compliance or Governance and Risk Management

• At least 5 years for technology focused risk assessments and remediation management

• At least 5 years experience managing third party audits such as SOC2, ISO 27001 ( and/or other ISO extensions), and PCI-DSS

• Skilled in cross-functional team project and program management.

• CISA certification required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Working experience in one or more of these certifications including ISO 27001 (and/or other ISO extensions), SOC2, PCI or other country-specific certifications for European and APAC countries

• Hands-on in-style and approach to working with very strong interest and demonstrable aptitude in technology products

• A real passion to learn new certification schemes and processes

• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of internal partners and customers

• Understand the challenges of working in distributed environment with multiple teams working on different problems

• Curious, positive, “can-do” and transparent attitude is very critical for success

• Unafraid to take charge, ask hard questions, manage distractions confidently yet respectfully and drive to goals

• Strong ability to work with minimum supervision

• Assertive yet open, thoughtful, respectful, and easy to work with; must embody Palo Alto Networks values

• BS degree ( or equivalent technical degree) required; MS preferred

• PCI ISA/PCIP, CRISC, CISSP or other similar security certifications desired

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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 $150K - $190KYR. 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.