Sr Manager Product Security

Company Description

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

Developing industry-leading security tools is tough, and ensuring they are built securely is just as tough, especially when operating at scale. It takes a lot of effort, coordination, and often custom tooling on top of the already industry-leading tools that are used to secure some of the largest companies in the world.

With this position, you will be leading the team for the company's Product Security AI Security  team for the Information Security (InfoSec) team itself. The Product Security Team is looking for driven individuals who know how to collaborate within our team, and with all of the other amazing teams in Palo Alto Networks. As the manager you will work closely with other leaders to coordinate priorities and efforts between requests from other teams, needs for the Product Security AI Security  teams, and general improvements for all InfoSec teams.

Your Impact 

• Lead and build AI Security practice 
  • Take ownership of the AI Security initiative
  • Ability to understand and implement security use cases using Generative AI or AI technologies
  • Implement security measures for AI and ML systems, models, and methodologies across the entire AI lifecycle
  • Understanding of Generative AI technologies, LLMs, Embeddings, Data pipelines, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep learning (DL)
  • Evangelize and lead the adoption of AI security best practices - You’re someone that possesses strong knowledge of AI security and wants to help people apply it
  • Secure AI models’ deployments
• Products/Tools Design & Development
  • Build vs Buy Research and Evaluation
  • Take ownership and lead the AI Security programs
  • Partner with product teams to design a secure AI and data pipeline architecture 
  • Solve Unique Problems!
  • Design solutions for real AI Security problems that are only seen at our scale
• Provide real time feedback to product teams to identify feature gaps and influence the development of Palo Alto’s products themselves

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5 years of experience in leading security engineering roles at large organizations or innovative startups
• Experience in AI offerings of GCP, AWS and Azure 
• Experience with one of the LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability, Llama, etc.
• Knowledge of security best practices and secure architectures related to AI/ML services
• Knowledge of software and cloud security lifecycle deployment and security automation frameworks in GCP, AWS and/or Azure
• Demonstrated track record of success
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both the business and technical sides of the business

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers.  They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work. 

Think about it:  Driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined by the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. 

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon!

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 [email protected].

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.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $175,600/yr to $284,000/yr. 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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