Cloud Security Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

Santa Clara, California, United States Product Engineering Ref ID: JR-018622

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

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

The Team

Product Management or PDM - To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest-growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our Product Management team helps us do just that. This team provides the 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.

Job Summary

As the Product Manager for Platformization of Cloud Delivered Security Services (CDSS), you will play a key role in driving effective security outcomes and simplifying operations for customers. The charter includes combining numerous products and services into a unified and streamlined management and operation experience, delivering adding native integrations that make each component stronger than a corresponding “best-of-breed” point product and creating great user experiences that increase productivity, radically simplify operations, and improve security outcomes. Your responsibilities will include defining and delivering the overall Platformization Roadmap, defining sophisticated frameworks to prioritize new capabilities, bringing in insights from customers and threat landscape and measuring ROI for new features. This role will need both - strong product management skills and deep technical curiosity.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio growth: Pivot product strategy to capture expansion across segments through ELAs, strategic bundling, and frictionless a la carte offerings.

• Cloud Scale, Performance, and Resiliency: Extend platform availability by deploying in new regions, vendor clouds (e.g., OCI, Azure), enhance resiliency through multi region and multi cloud failover.

• Modernize core engine architecture to manage content growth, increase velocity of new threat detections and improve device performance.

• Agentic AI Integration & Workflows: Drive creation and adoption of agentic AI workflows for adoption of threat protection across CDSS products.

• Regulatory Compliance and Assurance: Fulfill government and contractual mandates, including key milestones of FedRAMP Mod, High and IL5, essential for accessing government and high-security enterprise markets. Guarantee data sovereignty.

• Ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment, driving clarity and alignment with minimal direction.

• Own the CDSS cloud strategy product area in CDSS to build a world-class analytics framework for CDSS product adoption

• Go-To-Market (GTM) Partnership: Work in lockstep with GTM and Product Marketing (PMM) to develop high-conversion sales plays, pricing strategies, and launch plans that translate new capabilities into quantifiable customer value.

• Cross-Functional Integration: Drive capability integration and cross-functional engagements across product lines (NGFW, Prisma Access, SASE, and CDSS) to create an absolute customer preference for Palo Alto Networks.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience with either a bachelor's in engineering or equivalent

• 1+ years as a product manager in one of the following domains is highly preferred: security, cloud delivery, networking.

• Experience with AI and leveraging AI tools

• Deliver high-quality work in an agile, fast-paced environment

• Prior experience with networking.

• Track record creating products from concept to market success.

• Strong focus on end-user experience, customer workflows

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) – must be able to communicate at a business and technical level with internal teams, customers, partners, and executives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud security will be an added advantage.

• Familiarity with modern product development lifecycles and utilizing AI tools for product definition, telemetry synthesis, and workflow optimization.

• Proven experience building and scaling Product-Led Growth (PLG) motions, including in-app onboarding, self-service expansion, and usage-based growth levers

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$148,700.00 - $240,525.00/yr

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes