posting velocity //
Opens vs closes per day
Based on 45 events over 3 days. Green days had more opens than closes, red vice-versa. The dark line is the 7-day rolling average.

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11
Total active openings across all sites
Δ 28-day
+11
Opens minus closes in the last 28 days
Δ 90-day
+11
Opens minus closes in the last 90 days
posting velocity //
Based on 45 events over 3 days. Green days had more opens than closes, red vice-versa. The dark line is the 7-day rolling average.
role mix //
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The green layer is the current share of active openings by role. The grey dashed layer is the 90-day baseline — gaps between them show where the company is shifting its hiring mix.
seniority pyramid //
Distribution of active openings by seniority. The 'unknown' row groups jobs from sources that don't expose seniority.
geography //
Active openings by region. Click a row to see jobs in that area.
time on market //
Median
1.0 days
25th pct
0.9 days
75th pct
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Based on 17 closed jobs and 11 still open (right-censored). Curve is Kaplan-Meier; band is the 95% CI.Low event count — the median will stabilise after ~33 more closures. Until then treat the values as indicative.
company intel · ai-generated
Updated 1d ago
Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005 by Nir Zuk, along with Rajiv Batra, Yuming Mao, Dave Stevens, and Song Wang. Zuk, an Israeli engineer who previously worked at Check Point and NetScreen Technologies, was the primary technical visionary behind the company. Headquarters are in Santa Clara, California. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker PANW and is a component of the S&P 500.
The core product is a network security platform built around a next-generation firewall architecture that identifies applications, users, and content rather than relying solely on ports and protocols — a design philosophy Nir Zuk championed in contrast to traditional stateful-inspection firewalls.
Palo Alto Networks sells enterprise cybersecurity products and services across three main pillars: network security (firewalls, both physical and virtual), cloud security, and security operations. Its customers are predominantly large enterprises and government agencies. The company sells primarily through a direct sales force and channel partners, with large multi-year enterprise contracts as the dominant commercial model.
The engineering organization works across on-premises hardware appliances, virtualized firewall software (VM-Series), and cloud-native services delivered through its Prisma and Cortex platforms.
The company's major named platforms are:
Strata — the network security portfolio, anchored by the physical and virtual next-generation firewalls (PA-Series hardware appliances and VM-Series virtual firewalls) and the Panorama centralized management system.
Prisma — the cloud security portfolio, which includes Prisma Cloud (a cloud-native application protection platform, or CNAPP) and Prisma SASE (combining SD-WAN, ZTNA, and cloud-delivered security). Prisma Access delivers the SASE capability as a cloud service.
Cortex — the security operations portfolio, including Cortex XDR (extended detection and response), Cortex XSOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response, built on the technology acquired from Demisto in 2019), and Cortex XPANSE (attack surface management, built on technology acquired from Expanse in 2021).
Palo Alto Networks has made a series of named acquisitions that became product lines: Demisto (2019, for SOAR capabilities), Twistlock and PureSec (both 2019, forming the basis of Prisma Cloud's container and serverless security), and Expanse (2021, for attack surface management).
Palo Alto Networks competes directly with Fortinet in network firewall and SASE, with CrowdStrike in endpoint and XDR, with Microsoft in broad enterprise security, and with Wiz in cloud-native application protection. Fortinet competes primarily on price at the mid-market and below; CrowdStrike competes in the endpoint-first security operations space; Wiz has emerged as a direct challenger in CNAPP. Palo Alto Networks has historically positioned at the premium enterprise end of the market.
The company has pursued a strategy it calls "platformization" — encouraging customers to consolidate multiple point security products onto its three platforms in exchange for commercial incentives — which it began articulating publicly in its fiscal year 2024 earnings calls. This strategy involves offering deferred revenue arrangements to accelerate platform consolidation, which affected reported billings growth in the near term and caused significant stock volatility in early 2024 when the approach was first disclosed at scale.
Palo Alto Networks has consistently appeared in Gartner Magic Quadrant leader positions for network firewalls and for endpoint protection platforms.
Nir Zuk, the founder and long-time CTO, is Israeli, and the company has maintained an R&D presence in Israel since its early years. The Israel office is located in Tel Aviv. Israeli engineering talent, including alumni of IDF Unit 8200, has historically been a notable part of the company's technical workforce. The Tel Aviv R&D center works primarily on core firewall and threat prevention technology.
key people & leadership
3 key people, sourced from public records — with a per-row confidence score.
Nir Zuk
Founder and CTO
Israeli engineer and co-founder of Palo Alto Networks; previously held engineering roles at Check Point Software and NetScreen Technologies.
Dipak Golechha
Chief Financial Officer
leadership
Nikesh Arora
Chairman and CEO
Window: 180 days back. Don't read the mean — the long tail biases it. Median and percentiles are the honest summary.
Republish rate
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0 / 17 of closed jobs reposted within 60 days
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