Principal Escalation Engineer (Next Generation Firewall / Cloud Security)

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.

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!

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Your Career

This is a highly visible, senior level position in the customer engineering team that will benefit from out of box thinking and technical insight. The ideal Principal Escalation Engineer has a mix and background of customer management and broad and deep technical skills related to telecommunication equipment and Internet traffic. This Customer Engineering role is positioned to intercept and assist or drive technical escalations that come to the engineering for helping triage and drive towards resolution . Escalations of this type are extremely critical and are driven by the account teams in the field. In this role you will engage executive levels at customers, delivering get well plans, explaining the root cause or progress and addressing technical questions during customer interactions. Focal point to provide status to internal stakeholders and drive product improvements through serviceability.

Your Impact

Understand escalation process, identify areas of gaps and work on improvements in existing processes

You will work with internal support teams, service delivery teams and account teams to provide solutions to critical customer situations

Support & drive customer get well plans

Support, debug, and break fix any issues collaborating with internal engineering teams

Coordinate day-to-day problem, issue resolution and ensure timely resolution of issues

Co-dev any innovative tools helping in problem troubleshooting and resolution

Your Experience

BE /B.tech or equivalent technical graduation is mandatory

Overall 5+ years experience in the IT Industry with relevant experience in support service, technical support or similar troubleshooting related roles will be preferred.

High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Enjoys working with many different teams with strong collaboration and communications skills

Background in troubleshooting or designing modern networks, a good understanding of the behaviors of Internet applications and protocols & strong communication skills are the starting points to being successful in this role

Bachelor's degree in computer science or any of the suitable disciplines

Understanding of Virtualization including virtual machines and containers

PCAP analysis (via Wireshark and other packet analysis tools)

Experience of configuring & Troubleshooting FW & VPN (IPSec and SSL tunnels) technologies will be an added advantage

Knowledge of C, C++ and python programming languages(Good to have)

Any relevant certifications is an advantage ( cloud AWS, GCP or Azure, JNCIE, CCIE etc)

The Team

NGFW Customer Engineering team is the voice of the customers into engineering by optimizing Engineering-Customer interactions by resolving critical customer situations and improving the factors leading to escalations.

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.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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.

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.