Our Mission
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!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Summary
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.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.
Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.
Your Career
This is a highly visible, senior level position in the customer engineering team that will benefit from out of box thinking and technical insight. The ideal Principal Escalation Engineer has a mix and background of customer management and broad and deep technical skills related to telecommunication equipment and Internet traffic. This Customer Engineering role is positioned to intercept and assist or drive technical escalations that come to the engineering for helping triage and drive towards resolution . Escalations of this type are extremely critical and are driven by the account teams in the field. In this role you will engage executive levels at customers, delivering get well plans, explaining the root cause or progress and addressing technical questions during customer interactions. Focal point to provide status to internal stakeholders and drive product improvements through serviceability.
Your Impact
Understand escalation process, identify areas of gaps and work on improvements in existing processes
You will work with internal support teams, service delivery teams and account teams to provide solutions to critical customer situations
Support & drive customer get well plans
Support, debug, and break fix any issues collaborating with internal engineering teams
Coordinate day-to-day problem, issue resolution and ensure timely resolution of issues
Co-dev any innovative tools helping in problem troubleshooting and resolution