Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Description

Job Summary

As a Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our employees. You will work with cutting-edge technology, redefining the future of network security. You will perform competitive analysis, perform technical gap analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.

This person will be responsible for developing and executing Palo Alto Networks plan for outbound technical communication, including product best practices, competitive reviews, demo environments, and ownership of product betas.

This is a critical customer facing role within the company and one where the right person can have significant impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, constantly refine, and execute the technical marketing plan
• Be responsible for the creation, maintenance, and delivery of effective technical tools, whitepapers, demos, videos, Technical Decision Maker content and technical training for sales, customers, and partners
• Lead the automation within and across the cross-functional teams and strive to achieve technical and operational excellence in every step of the releases
• Lead the competitive research and testing to identify key competitive advantages of our product lines and deliver them to sales, customers, and partners
• Be a key technical evangelist for Palo Alto Networks, speaking at seminars, conferences, customer briefings, and with other groups within the company
• Work with engineering in identifying product gaps based on competitive analysis and work with the PM to drive enhancements to bridge them
• Be the domain authority on Palo Alto Networks products to help Systems Engineers with information on competitive questions
• Identify Sales challenges based on any competitive situations and provide solutions
• Document technical concepts to ensure our products are well understood and utilized to the greatest extent possible
• Setup and maintain a competitive test lab including test harness, competitive products, automation environment, etc
• Configure and test competitive products, evaluate product strengths for security efficacy, product features, etc
• Work with marketing to develop collaterals with battle cards, presentations, and white papers

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer for network/cybersecurity area or a DevOps/Solution Architect, preferably for networking or security products
• Experience and domain knowledge of hardware platforms, architectures and deployment models.
• Experience and Good domain knowledge with cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP at least one of the public cloud experience preferred)
• Good understanding of KVM, VMware, and other Virtualization technologies and Container security.
• Experience with scripting languages such as python, CFT, and Terraform is highly desired
• Experience to set up a lab environment
• Knowledge in building and maintaining POC & Demo environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong presentation skills and trade show experience
• 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
• Experience using vulnerability scanning tools, crafting attacks with tools like Metasploit, Burpsuite, etc
• Deep understanding of network and application security threats, attack techniques, and mitigation options
• Experience in automation tools, building dashboards, etc
• Thorough understanding of general networking and configuring routers, switches, etc
• Experience with writing and editing technical documentation and operational procedures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional Information

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

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.