Principal Technical Product Engineer - Agentic AI & Automation (Cortex)

• Extensive experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives in fast-paced environments involving multiple stakeholders, strategic customers, and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional professional presence and confidence advising audiences ranging from security practitioners to C-level executives.
• A collaborative leader who creatively solves complex problems and proactively establishes scalable solutions rather than repeatedly solving isolated customer issues.
• Deep affinity for technology and a relentless drive to understand emerging technologies, products, markets, and competitive landscapes.
• Strong understanding of modern Security Operations, SOC workflows, SIEM, SOAR, XDR, CNAPP, automation, and orchestration.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and implementing opportunities to automate complex technical or operational workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, agentic workflows, or AI-powered security technologies.
• Understanding of how AI can be safely incorporated into security operations, including human-in-the-loop controls, governance, validation, permissions, and operational guardrails.
• Experience working directly with strategic enterprise customers and major cloud infrastructure providers.
• Strong technical understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern security operations.
• Demonstrated ability to prototype or build technical solutions using APIs, automation frameworks, scripting, orchestration platforms, or cloud services.
• Excellent presentation and technical writing skills, with a history of delivering demos, technical workshops, architectural guidance, whitepapers, and executive briefings.
• Experience with platforms such as XSIAM, Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR, Cortex Cloud, CNAPP, SIEM, SOAR, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, APIs, and cloud-native services is a plus.
• Experience developing or integrating AI agents, LLM-based applications, MCP/tool integrations, or agentic workflows is a plus.

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.

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