Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer (CDSS)

Your Career

As a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer you will join a team responsible for driving our Cloud Applications and Data security products including SaaS IaaS Network and Endpoint Data Protection. You will work with cutting-edge technology redefining the future of network security. 

This role plays a key role in supporting our product managers marketing teams and customers by developing outbound technical communication including product best practices competitive reviews demo environments and ownership of product betas. You will perform technical gap analysis competitive analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.  This is a critical customer facing role within the company and one where the right person can have significant impact. 

The ideal candidate would be able to influence strategy collaborate with marketing and sales teams to execute go to market strategies act as a thought leader at the industry level evangelizing the products and product strategy both internally and externally.

Your Impact

• Develop constantly refine and execute the technical marketing plan for products/ areas of ownership
• Write and create high-quality customer facing partner facing and sales facing collateral and presentations
• Develop technical content including tech notes publications solution guides white papers to ensure our products are well understood and utilized to the greatest extent possible
• Deliver presentations on product updates launches best practices executive briefings  in virtual (webinar) or live (seminars conferences) formats. 
• Work closely with Product Managers and provide product feedback for future development 
• Build out and manage lab environments and demo systems to replicate customer environments and real-world simulations.
• Drive success of customer trials by assisting beta customers with understanding and configuring new product capabilities 
• Collaborate on PRD creation and review engineering specs and test plans
• Help customers channel partners and system engineers with product related questions and hands-on technical training 

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 8 years of experience in computer security industry in a technical capacity and product management or product marketing role 
• BS/BA in a computer-related field or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• Strong understanding of and network security concepts (firewalls proxies)
• Proven expertise in network and web security technologies (TCP/IP DNS HTTP/HTTPS TLS/SSL VPNs firewalls web security IDP/IPS DNS-based security etc.).
• Understanding of the evolving  threat landscape: Common security threats vulnerabilities and attack vectors
• Working knowledge of cloud architectures (SaaS IaaS PaaS) and major cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP) 
• Experience in configuring managing and troubleshooting Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP)  solutions
• Good understanding of the competitive landscape for data security solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong presentation skills and trade show experience
• Experience with production lab or data center experience with application staging and maintenance a plus
• Experience with network test equipment (Ixia/Breakingpoint/Spirent) and with scripting languages such as python
• Experience in automation tools building dashboards etc. 
• Eagerness to learn new technologies experiment with products and collaborate cross-functionally
• Strong customer advocacy skills and experience ability to work in difficult customer situations
• Work towards getting things done fast learner with strong initiative and sense of ownership

Additional Information :

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our engineers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

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.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning location to leadership weve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve 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 .

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.

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 $159000/YR - $255000/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

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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  .

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.