Systems Engineer

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!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

As a Platform Engineer, you will serve as the technical execution and operational owner for a specific identity security product pillar's representation, enablement, and execution across our global technical sales motion.
This role sits within the Technical Solutions Center of Excellence and is responsible for defining key use cases and managing the technical readiness of our scaled demo and evaluation environments. You will partner closely with Product Management, Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, and GTM Strategy teams.
The Platform Engineer ensures that product strategy translates into high-quality, scalable, and repeatable technical execution across live demos, customer evaluations, and new product releases. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring deep product expertise, strong systems engineering thinking, and significant hands‑on technical execution—specifically bridging the gap between Dev Ops practices, cloud infrastructure, and technical sales engineering.

• Demo Engineering & Cloud Infrastructure: Architect, build, and maintain scalable, cloud‑native demo environments, use‑case flows, and value framing for the product pillar. Ensure seamless product representation within shared cloud lab environments via heavy hands‑on contribution to infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) and automated provisioning pipelines.
• Dev Ops & Solution Building: Act as a core technical builder, applying Dev Ops methodologies to create robust, automated, and ephemer​al evaluation environments that simulate complex, real‑world customer architectures.
• Technical Evaluation Architecture: Define technical evaluation use cases, success criteria, and best practices. Continuously update evaluation guidance and automation scripts as the product evolves, ensuring alignment with modern enterprise technology stacks.
• Release Readiness & Field Enablement: Serve as the technical lead for new product releases within the assigned pillar. Partner with Product and Marketing teams to ensure the field has the technical tools, automation scripts, and stable cloud environments needed to demonstrate new capabilities effectively at scale.
• Analytics, Insights & Continuous Improvement: Monitor the health and adoption of shared technical environments. Identify execution gaps, environment instability, or technical friction, and drive corrective action through code refactoring, pipeline improvements, or infrastructure optimization.

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Dev…