Palo Alto Sr Technical Product Engineer Cortex-Cloud 

United States, Texas, Plano 

853885444

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

As a Sr. TPE, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our internal employees. You will be a strategic adviser to the business, driving valuable insight, guidance and feedback back into Palo Alto Networks. You will work across product teams to deliver this feedback

Your Impact

As a Sr. TPE, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our internal employees. You will be a strategic adviser to the business, driving valuable insight, guidance and feedback back into Palo Alto Networks. You will work across product teams to deliver this feedback

Your Impact

• Collaborate with Legal, Sales, Product Management, and customers to drive innovation and ensure secure, scalable adoption of cloud-native security solutions.

• Lead complex, cross-functional projects that shape the product roadmap and align with field-driven priorities.

• Provide actionable feedback to Product Managers to influence development in areas such as cloud posture, workload protection, and identity management.

• Design and deliver automation content, playbooks, and integrations that address real-world SOC use cases and cloud security risks.

• Contribute to the evolution of Cortex product capabilities by enhancing visibility, risk prioritization, and policy enforcement across multi-cloud environments.

• Advocate for best practices in securing modern application architectures using automation, contextual risk insights, and scalable cloud-native controls.

Your Experience

• Ability to inspire teams, colleagues, and executives; paired with an ability to execute

• Understanding of cloud native security and security operations use cases

• Experience managing cross functional programs, in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities

• Excellent professional presence and confidence working with and advising entry level through top executives

• A team player that creatively and effectively solves complex issues and establishes best practices proactively

• Understanding and affinity for technology and a motivation to master product and market details

• Strong work ethic, integrity, and organizational skills

• At least 2 years experience with one or more major cloud infrastructure providers

• At least 2 years experience with security orchestration, automation, and response technology

• Understanding of securing cloud platforms using security operations automation

• Technical knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern application architectures

• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities

• Experience with CSPM tools (e.g., Prisma Cloud etc.) to detect and remediate cloud misconfigurations and risks. - an advantage

• Understanding of CIEM principles and hands-on experience with managing cloud entitlements across AWS/Azure/GCP - an advantage

• Experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and modern CI/CD pipelines - an advantage

• Experience in building SOC workflows & incident response - an advantage

• Experience in building SIEM integrations - an advantage

• Experience in cloud native programing, scripts, and automation - an advantage

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 $134,000 - $215,500/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.