Senior Product Manager — Logging & Streaming Data Platform

Palo Alto Networks; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the Strata Logging Service and data platform capabilities for Strata Cloud Manager. You will own strategy, roadmap, and requirements for high-volume data ingestion, real-time processing, data lake storage, retention, and forwarding, partnering with engineering to balance throughput, latency, and cloud economics.

This role requires 10+ years in technical product management, experience with logging/observability, and strong

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience in technical enterprise software, SaaS, or cloud platforms.
• Ownership of logging, telemetry, observability, or high-volume data platforms.
• Experience defining requirements for real-time data ingestion and processing.
• Ability to discuss distributed data pipelines, latency, retention, and cost with engineering teams.
• Experience translating strategy into phased roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Experience driving product discovery, prioritization, delivery, launch, and adoption.
• Experience working with enterprise customers and translating needs into platform capabilities.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Strata Logging Service and related logging platforms.
• Define requirements for real-time ingestion, streaming, storage, and data forwarding.
• Collaborate with engineering on tradeoffs for throughput, latency, and cost.
• Translate customer problems into product requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.
• Develop a 3–5 year platform vision and translate into prioritized roadmap increments.
• Engage with enterprise customers, admins, partners, and field teams to identify unmet needs.
• Lead capabilities from discovery through launch and adoption.
• Partner with UX and engineering to deliver intuitive platform experiences.

Skills

Product management

Enterprise software

Stakeholder leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor or Master degree

Tools

Apache Kafka

Amazon Kinesis

Job 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

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. Thats why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when its needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Shape the data platform behind enterprise-scale network security. Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Strata Logging Service and the data platform capabilities supporting Strata Cloud Manager. The scope spans high-volume log and telemetry ingestion, real-time streaming and processing, data lake storage, retention, and forwarding—foundational capabilities that support security visibility, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled automation. Working at the intersection of customer needs and platform architecture, this product manager partners closely with engineering to define requirements and evaluate tradeoffs across throughput, latency, data freshness, reliability, and cloud infrastructure economics. Ownership includes a three-to-five-year platform vision, a phased execution roadmap, and measurable customer and business outcomes. Success requires demonstrated technical product management experience with logging, observability, streaming data, or comparable distributed data platforms, combined with enterprise customer judgment and the ability to lead complex initiatives from discovery through launch and adoption. This position is based at Palo Alto Networks headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with a hybrid schedule requiring three days onsite per week.

Your Impact

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Strata Logging Service and related logging and telemetry platform capabilities.


• Define requirements for real-time ingestion, streaming data processing, storage, retention, and forwarding of network and security data.


• Partner with engineering on platform tradeoffs involving ingestion throughput, end-to-end latency, data freshness, durability, availability, and infrastructure cost.


• Define customer requirements for data onboarding, supported sources, schema evolution, data quality, delivery failures, and recovery.


• Develop a three-to-five-year platform vision and translate it into prioritized, achievable roadmap increments.


• Engage enterprise customers, network and security administrators, partners, and field teams to understand operational workflows and unmet needs.


• Translate customer problems into product requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable success metrics.


• Establish platform metrics covering ingestion success, throughput, latency, reliability, customer adoption, and cost efficiency.


• Support growing data volumes and multi-tenant SaaS requirements while balancing performance, reliability, and cloud economics.


• Partner across product teams to support logging, telemetry, and visibility requirements for new network security capabilities.


• Identify AI-enabled analytics and automation opportunities grounded in customer problems and the platform’s data capabilities.


• Lead capabilities from discovery through launch, adoption, and ongoing optimization.


• Partner with UX and engineering to deliver intuitive platform experiences that simplify the work of network and security administrators.


• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to inform product strategy and identify emerging customer needs.


• Partner with product marketing, technical marketing, sales engineering, and support on positioning, enablement, beta programs, and customer escalations.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of technical enterprise software, SaaS, or cloud platform products.


• Demonstrated product ownership of a logging, telemetry, observability, streaming data, security data, or comparable high-volume data platform.


• Experience defining requirements for real-time or near-real-time data ingestion and processing, together with downstream storage or data delivery.


• Ability to discuss technical tradeoffs involving distributed data pipelines, throughput, latency, schema evolution, retention, reliability, and cost with engineering teams.


• Experience defining long-term product strategy and translating it into phased roadmaps, clear priorities, and measurable outcomes.


• Demonstrated ownership of product discovery, requirements, prioritization, delivery, launch, and adoption.


• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and translating complex operational needs into platform capabilities.


• Experience using customer feedback, usage data, and platform performance metrics to guide product decisions.


• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams while managing multiple priorities.


• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.


• Bachelor’s or master’s degree, equivalent practical experience, or equivalent military experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with network security, network management, next-generation firewalls, or security operations products.


• Product experience with log management, security information and event management (SIEM), security analytics, or observability platforms.


• Familiarity with event-streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or comparable systems.


• Experience with data lake architectures, high-volume telemetry storage, and the relationship between streaming pipelines and downstream analytics.


• Experience defining log forwarding, external integrations, APIs, or data export capabilities.


• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure economics, including compute, storage, retention, and data transfer costs.


• Experience with data governance, access controls, tenant isolation, or compliance requirements for enterprise data platforms.


• Experience developing AI-enabled analytics, automation, or intelligent operational workflows.


• Experience working with enterprise customers, partners, sales engineering, technical marketing, and technical support organizations.

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. $153,000.00 - $247,500.00/yr

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. Its 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 [e-mail]. 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.