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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

About The Role

At Palo Alto Networks, we are shaping the cloud-centric and AI-aligned future with technology that transforms the way people and organizations operate. We are looking for a Principal Security Architect to serve as a technical authority for our multi-cloud security strategy.

In this high-impact role, you will define the architectural "North Star" for our cloud-native platforms, ensuring our products are secure by design. You will act as a "player-coach," driving complex threat modeling initiatives and steering the architectural direction across GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, and SAP environments. You will partner deeply with engineering leadership to embed security into the DNA of our next-generation security products.

Security Strategy & Architecture

• Multi-Cloud Blueprint: Define and maintain the authoritative security architecture patterns for our services across GCP, AWS, Azure, and OCI, and SAP. You will dictate how we leverage native cloud security controls vs. our own proprietary protections.

• Secure by Design: Lead the design of secure, scalable, and resilient systems. You will champion "Security by Design" principles, ensuring isolation, identity management (IAM), and data protection are baked into the infrastructure from day one.

• Zero Trust Implementation: Drive the architectural strategy for Zero Trust adoption across our development environments and production SaaS platforms.

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Threat Modeling & Risk Management

• Advanced Threat Modeling: Own the threat modeling methodology for the organization. You will facilitate deep-dive threat modeling sessions for critical features, identifying attack vectors in complex distributed systems before code hits production.

• Risk Quantification: Actively identify architectural risks and technical debt. You will translate these findings into actionable items for the Cybersecurity Risk Register, communicating the business impact of technical vulnerabilities to executive leadership.

• Product Security Expertise: Leverage your deep knowledge of security products (e.g., CWPP, CSPM, NGFW) to advise product teams on how to best architect their solutions to withstand modern adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures).

Technical Leadership & Enablement

• Engineering Mentorship: Provide high-level guidance to Staff and Senior security engineers. Foster a culture of rigorous engineering excellence and proactive security thinking.

• Cross-Functional Steering: Lead "Tiger Teams" and cross-functional squads through complex security implementations, serving as the bridge between Developer, Product Engineering, and Infosec Teams.

Qualifications

Your Experience (Required Skills)

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in security engineering and/or security architecture, with at least + years acting in a Principal or Lead capacity.

• Cloud Fluency: Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in public cloud environments. Must have mastery in at least one major provider (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, or SAP) with a strong working knowledge of the others.

• Threat Modeling: Proven track record of executing complex threat models (STRIDE, PASTA, or similar frameworks) for microservices and serverless architectures.

• Experience securing AI/ML ecosystems, with a deep understanding of adversarial machine learning attacks and defenses for Large Language Models (LLMs).

• Ability to design secure architectures for high-scale data training environments and define governance standards for Generative AI integration.

• Security Product Knowledge: Deep understanding of the security vendor landscape. Experience designing or extensively using CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management), CWPP, or Container Security platforms.

• Code: Proficiency with scripting language as Python/Go and experience securing CI/CD pipelines.

• Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate technical risk to executive audiences and negotiate architectural trade-offs with product owners.

Must-Have Knowledge, Skills, and Experience (specifically):

• Must Demonstrate Sophisticated, Deep Knowledge And Hands-On Experience With Modern Secure-By-Design and Privacy-By-Design and Zero Trust (Principles And Practices).
  
• Must Demonstrate Sophisticated, Deep Knowledge And Hands-On Experience With Well-Architected Frameworks (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their Security Pillars.
  
• Must Demonstrate Sophisticated, Deep Knowledge And Hands-On Experience With Modern STRIDE, PASTA, DREAD methodologies and MITRE, CWE, CAPEC, CVE, NIST, OWASP security frameworks and standards.

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.

$167,600.00 - $271,150.00/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? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.