Palo Alto Senior Technical Marketing Engineer 

United States, California 

130189234

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

Your Impact

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to develop competitive positioning strategies, articulate technical differentiators, and deliver compelling narratives for IoT and OT security solutions.
  

• Lead on-site workshops and technical design sessions to guide enterprise customers through complex deployment architectures, accelerating implementation timelines and improving configuration best practices.
  

• Proactively identify and resolve deployment challenges, collaborating cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, and Support to influence roadmap priorities and drive impactful feature enhancements.
  

• Deliver high-touch post-sales engagement to drive product adoption, maximize customer satisfaction, and secure renewals—ensuring long-term customer success and advocacy.
  

• Expand and manage customer soak sites to validate product robustness, accelerate product maturity, and increase coverage across strategic accounts and key industry segments.
  

• Collect, analyze, and synthesize customer and field feedback to translate real-world insights into actionable recommendations—enhancing usability and reducing support tickets.
  

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert (SME), building strong relationships with customers, partners, and internal teams to support proofs of concept (PoCs), trials, and sales enablement initiatives.
  

• Develop and deliver advanced technical training and enablement content for Systems Engineers, Channel Partners, and Field Teams to strengthen technical acumen and ensure market alignment.
  

• Act as the voice of the customer (VoC) during product testing and evaluation, ensuring new features align with evolving market and security requirements across IoT, OT, and IIoT environments.
  

• Conduct ongoing market and competitive analysis to monitor IoT threat trends, assess opportunity size, and provide data-driven insights that shape product strategy and innovation .

Your Experience

• Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in IoT, OT, IIoT, IoMT, and network security, with deep expertise in network traffic analysis, threat detection, and security architecture design.
  

• Comprehensive understanding of passive IoT security solutions, including device discovery, behavioral analysis, and anomaly detection across diverse industrial and healthcare environments.
  

• Strong wired and wireless network architecture skills, with the ability to interpret complex customer network designs, data flows, and segmentation strategies to ensure secure and efficient deployments.
  

• Extensive experience with passive network data collection solutions, including SPAN, RSPAN, ERSPAN, and network taps such as Gigamon, for scalable visibility and traffic monitoring.
  

• Proficient in networking topologies and IoT/OT/IIoT/IoMT communication protocols, including Modbus, DNP3, BACnet, MQTT, and OPC UA, with a strong grasp of network security implications.
  

• Hands-on expertise with Network Access Control (NAC) and Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solutions in complex, distributed environments, ensuring secure access and policy enforcement.
  

• Technical Product & Tool Expertise

• Experience with leading enterprise and security platforms, including:
  

  • Asset Management/CMMS systems: ServiceNow
    

  • Network & Wireless Management: Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Wireless LAN Controllers
    

  • Vulnerability Management: Rapid7, Tenable, Qualys
    

  • IP Address Management (IPAM): Infoblox
    

  • SIEM/SOAR platforms: Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, QRadar
    

  • SNMP and network monitoring tools for performance and availability analytics
    

• Strong understanding of SOC workflows, incident response processes, and integration between detection, investigation, and remediation tools.
  

• Professional Skills & Achievements

• Proven experience preparing compelling RFI/RFP/RFQ responses, effectively positioning technical solutions to meet customer and business requirements.
  

• Demonstrated success leading customer evaluations, proof-of-concepts (PoCs), and technical validations, achieving high conversion rates and strong customer adoption.
  

• Skilled in competitive analysis and solution benchmarking, with the ability to articulate key differentiators and influence product development decisions.
  

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, adept at translating complex technical concepts into clear, compelling value propositions for both technical and executive audiences.
  

• Strong customer advocacy and relationship-building skills, with experience managing complex customer engagements and resolving challenges in high-stakes environments.
  

• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, Sales, and Marketing to define requirements, shape features, and accelerate go-to-market success.
  

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize information and drive strategic outcomes in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
  

• Education & Preferred Expertise

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent military or professional experience.
  

• Bonus Experience:
  

  • Hands-on familiarity with PAN-OS and Palo Alto Networks security platforms.
    

  • Experience with EDR tools, endpoint telemetry, and behavioral analytics.
    

  • Scripting proficiency, especially leveraging RESTful APIs for automation and system integration.
    

  • Expertise in packet capture (PCAP) analysis, collection, and protocol decoding.
    

  • Knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies, including VMware, AWS, and Azure environments.

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 $200,000 - $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.