Principal Product Manager (PAN-OS Networking)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has built a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch talent to tackle challenging security problems. As a Senior Product Manager for PAN-OS networking and core infrastructure, you will play an instrumental role in managing the lifecycle of the core PAN-OS infrastructure, which powers our next-generation firewalls and multiple cloud-based as-a-service offerings. This role will be instrumental in driving the adoption of PAN-OS core infrastructure technologies across our Strata Portfolio (NGFW, SWFW, Prisma Access, SD-WAN, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager). This role will enable our customers to deploy our products across the cloud, data centers, service providers, enterprises, and much more as we innovate with new security features, from threat prevention to Gen AI, and hardware. This high-visibility position will drive the business of our core Strata network security platform and enable the company to succeed in its platformization strategy.

Your Impact

• Manage key features across our PAN-OS network and infrastructure stack, which includes:

  • Ethernet, VLANs, IP routing, TCP/IP, Multicast, Protocols (BGP, ISIS, OSPF, PIM, IGMP; etc.), DNS, DoH, DoT, DHCP, QoS, NAT, DDOS. Expert knowledge on or more of the following verticals is required:•

  • Tunneling protocols such as IPSEC, GRE, GENEVE, VXLAN

  • Palo Alto Networks specific infrastructure, VSYS, LSVPN, Zones, Virtual Routers, and HW and SW capacity planning

  • Deep expertise across the OSI model L2-L7 

• As a Product manager, you must have network design expertise with the following deployment architectures:

  • Cloud Service Providers

  • Private and public cloud data centers

  • service provider data center,

  • Large enterprise networks 

  • Branch / remote office networks

  • Financial networks

  • High-performance computing (HPC)

• GTM experience launching software features
• Ability to write technical content (blogs, deployment guides, white papers, technical briefs,  etc.) for both our internal sales teams and external customers.
• Experience  building extensive GTM, technical, and strategic decks with business acumen and clarity
• You will  present in front of internal and external audiences 
• Collaborate with the cross-functional teams across our portfolio (NGFW, SWFW, Prisma Access, SD-WAN, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager) to drive networking features
• Partner closely with engineering to develop proactive upgrade strategies
• Collaborate with customer success and field organization to implement the upgrade strategies
• Develop insights into customer deployments and provide recommendations to accelerate feature adoption

Your Experience 

• BS/MS in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering preferred or equivalent military experience required
• 5-7 years of experience in a Product Manager, Technical Marketing, engineering lead role (software development, release, or quality assurance) or experience in managing upgrades of large network appliance systems
• Any experience in product management is a plus
• Experience in hands-on operational, i.e., real-world, device and appliance management
• Experience in routing, switching, security, or firewall technology is a plus, especially with PAN-OS NGFW firewalls
• Strong understanding of networking RFCs, frameworks, and architectures 
• Strong communication skills and ability to interface cross-functionally as well as with external customers, field teams, and partners

The Team

We’re an innovative team focused on delivering best-in-class, threat detection services. Our mission is to protect our customers’ public cloud workloads with resilient, scalable, and always-on firewall solutions. As the leading FWaaS provider, we successfully integrated in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Driven by a commitment to excellence, we set the standard for best-in-class security across even the most complex cloud infrastructures. We also happen to be one of the fastest-growing Security Products within Palo Alto Networks.

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 $166000/YR - $260500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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