Sr Manager Product Security

Company Description

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

Developing industry-leading security tools is tough, and ensuring they are built securely is just as tough, especially when operating at scale. It takes a lot of effort, coordination, and often custom tooling on top of the already industry-leading tools that are used to secure some of the largest companies in the world.

With this position, you will be leading the team for the company's Product Security AI Security  team for the Information Security (InfoSec) team itself. The Product Security Team is looking for driven individuals who know how to collaborate within our team, and with all of the other amazing teams in Palo Alto Networks. As the manager you will work closely with other leaders to coordinate priorities and efforts between requests from other teams, needs for the Product Security AI Security  teams, and general improvements for all InfoSec teams.

Your Impact 

• Lead and build AI Security practice 
  • Take ownership of the AI Security initiative
  • Ability to understand and implement security use cases using Generative AI or AI technologies
  • Implement security measures for AI and ML systems, models, and methodologies across the entire AI lifecycle
  • Understanding of Generative AI technologies, LLMs, Embeddings, Data pipelines, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep learning (DL)
  • Evangelize and lead the adoption of AI security best practices - You’re someone that possesses strong knowledge of AI security and wants to help people apply it
  • Secure AI models’ deployments
• Products/Tools Design & Development
  • Build vs Buy Research and Evaluation
  • Take ownership and lead the AI Security programs
  • Partner with product teams to design a secure AI and data pipeline architecture 
  • Solve Unique Problems!
  • Design solutions for real AI Security problems that are only seen at our scale
• Provide real time feedback to product teams to identify feature gaps and influence the development of Palo Alto’s products themselves

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in leading security engineering roles at large organizations or innovative startups
• Experience in AI offerings of GCP, AWS and Azure 
• Experience with one of the LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability, Llama, etc.
• Knowledge of security best practices and secure architectures related to AI/ML services
• Knowledge of software and cloud security lifecycle deployment and security automation frameworks in GCP, AWS and/or Azure
• Demonstrated track record of success
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both the business and technical sides of the business

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our custom