Cloud Security Technical Marketing Engineer

Palo Alto Networks; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer to join our Engineering team in California. You will bridge deep security engineering with compelling storytelling, deliver technical collateral, and enable field teams through demos, labs, and battle cards.

You will own cloud security architectures, runbooks, and lab demos across hyperscaler environments, and contribute to product evaluations, competitive analyses, and customer engagements.

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 Good domain knowledge with Multi-cloud deployments
• Good understanding of cyber security solutions such as NGFW, Layer 7 visibility, SSL decryption, Zerotrust Architecture
• Solid foundation in networking fundamentals, including routing protocols, BGP, static routing, NAT/PAT, IPsec, GRE, load balancing, switching concepts, DNS, and traffic steering.
• Experience with scripting languages such as python, Terraform is highly desired
• 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
• Deep understanding of network and application security threats, attack techniques, and mitigation options.
• Experience with writing and editing technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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 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

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer to join our Engineering team in California. You will bridge deep security engineering with compelling storytelling, deliver technical collateral, and enable field teams through demos, labs, and battle cards.

You will own cloud security architectures, runbooks, and lab demos across hyperscaler environments, and contribute to product evaluations, competitive analyses, and customer engagements.