Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer (Cortex)

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch technical pro engineers to expand the team. As a Senior Technical Product Engineer at Palo Alto Networks you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners customers and our employees.

Be a self-starter who is eager to learn and experiment with new technologies be able to work independently and as a teammate identify sales challenges and address solutions as needed.

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

• Drive innovation within the modern Security Operations Center (SOC) by developing content and capabilities aligned with Cortex and detection-focused workflows.
   

• Collaborate with legal sales product and customer-facing teams to translate security operations needs into actionable product improvements.
   

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives across product management engineering and field teams for high-impact security use cases.
   

• Build high-quality content for the Cortex Marketplace including detection rules parsers dashboards and other SOC-enabling artifacts.
   

• Provide structured product feedback to influence roadmap decisions based on real-world SecOps challenges and opportunities.
   

• Create detailed documentation and usage guides tailored for analysts detection engineers and security practitioners.
   

• Promote operational excellence by designing scalable detection and response workflows grounded in industry best practices and threat-informed defense.
   

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Ability to inspire and align teams across functions paired with strong execution and delivery skills.
   

• 2 years of experience in security operations threat detection incident response or detection engineering roles.
   

• Solid understanding of SIEM log analytics data normalization and detection lifecycle management (rule creation tuning suppression enrichment).
   

• Hands-on experience with XSIAM or similar platforms (Splunk QRadar Sentinel etc.) is a strong plus.
   

• Strong technical writing and communication skills with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
   

• Skilled in scripting or automation (Python JavaScript etc.) for detection development or incident investigation tasks.
   

• Experience managing multiple projects or programs in dynamic fast-paced environments with cross-functional visibility.
   

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP) especially as it relates to telemetry ingestion detection engineering or automated response a significant advantage.
   

• Experience with CNAPP solutions (e.g. Prisma Cloud Wiz Orca) and integrating cloud posture workload protection or entitlement data into SecOps workflows an advantage.

• Bonus: Exposure to infrastructure-as-code CI/CD pipelines or cloud-native services and their intersection with SecOps.

Additional Information :

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve its critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes were facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our TPE team helps us do just that.

This team provides behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information for our systems engineers staying on top of the environment we sell in and helping to implement technical solutions based on our clients feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve we stay ahead to accomplish our mission

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 $134000/YR - $215500/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 trailblazers that dream big 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.

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.