Principal Product Manager

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has built a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch talent to tackle challenging security problems. As a Senior Product Manager for PAN-OS networking and core infrastructure, you will play an instrumental role in managing the lifecycle of the core PAN-OS infrastructure, which powers our next-generation firewalls and multiple cloud-based as-a-service offerings. This role will be instrumental in driving the adoption of PAN-OS core infrastructure technologies across our Strata Portfolio (NGFW, SWFW, Prisma Access, SD-WAN, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager). This role will enable our customers to deploy our products across the cloud, data centers, service providers, enterprises, and much more as we innovate with new security features, from threat prevention to Gen AI, and hardware. This high-visibility position will drive the business of our core Strata network security platform and enable the company to succeed in its platformization strategy.

Your Impact

• Manage key features across our PAN-OS network and infrastructure stack, which includes:

  • Ethernet, VLANs, IP routing, TCP/IP, Multicast, Protocols (BGP, ISIS, OSPF, PIM, IGMP; etc.), DNS, DoH, DoT, DHCP, QoS, NAT, DDOS. Expert knowledge on or more of the following verticals is required:•

  • Tunneling protocols such as IPSEC, GRE, GENEVE, VXLAN

  • Palo Alto Networks specific infrastructure, VSYS, LSVPN, Zones, Virtual Routers, and HW and SW capacity planning

  • Deep expertise across the OSI model L2-L7 

• As a Product manager, you must have network design expertise with the following deployment architectures:

  • Cloud Service Providers

  • Private and public cloud data centers

  • service provider data center,

  • Large enterprise networks 

  • Branch / remote office networks

  • Financial networks

  • High-performance computing (HPC)

• GTM experience launching software features
• Ability to write technical content (blogs, deployment guides, white papers, technical briefs,  etc.) for both our internal sales teams and external customers.
• Experience  building extensive GTM, technical, and strategic decks with business acumen and clarity
• You will  present in front of internal and external audiences 
• Collaborate with the cross-functional teams across our portfolio (NGFW, SWFW, Prisma Access, SD-WAN, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager) to drive networking features
• Partner closely with engineering to develop proactive upgrade strategies
• Collaborate with customer success and field organization to implement th