Staff Customer Success Engineer
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Role Overview
Customer Success Engineers (CSEs) are product experts, technical advisors, and customer advocates.
At Palo Alto Networks, we take a proactive approach to ensuring customers achieve their business outcomes through tailored, end-to-end technical execution and guidance.
Our team is responsible for implementing custom integrations and workflows to ensure our solutions seamlessly blend into the customer's technical environment.
By bridging the gap between complex security infrastructure and strategic business goals, you will directly drive long-term platform adoption and value.
Our CSEs provide deep product-level expertise across Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) setup, deployment, adoption, and optimization.
You will guide version rollouts, deliver product advisory, and manage complex technical escalations—working closely with CISOs, CTOs, and technical teams across the world’s largest organizations.
In this role, your technical leadership ensures our enterprise clients maintain a resilient, proactive security posture against evolving threats.
This position sits within our Network Security team, delivering world-class support and services across our NGFW technologies.
This role is based out of a local Palo Alto Networks office in the United States.
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Qualifications
- 8+ years relevant work experience in Network Engineering, Architecture, Security Engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles
- Advanced experience in supporting common end user software (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Advanced experience in using tools such as Salesforce, JIRA, Gainsight, Tableau
- Extensive working experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle)
- Proven results working as a trusted technical advisor to drive value for customers, including the ability to interact with C-suite through client teams at various levels of technical and non-technical depth
- Experience providing mentorship and guidance to junior colleagues
- Advanced in managing customer escalations with experience in technical support, account management
- Some expertise with common network troubleshooting tools (PCAP, SPAN, CLI)
- Extensive experience with configuring and deploying CDSS features
- In-depth knowledge of customer software qualification, change management, and testing processes
- Demonstrated ability to create and present effective QBR/EBR presentations
- Perform and document root cause analysis
- Thrives in a matrixed team environment, anchored by our values of Collaboration, Disruption, Execution, Inclusion, and Integrity
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
- Preferred: Prior security certification (PCNSA, PCNSE, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE or similar)
- Travel: Open to occasional travel according to the need for strategic customer engagement and on-sites
- 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.
- 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.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company. It develops platforms and services that help organizations protect networks, cloud environments, endpoints and security operations, and it also provides threat intelligence and incident response services.
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