Associate Systems Engineer (Academy)

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!

Your Career

As an Associate Systems Engineer, you will join a cohort of recent college graduates for an immersion into Palo Alto Networks platform, automation, and cybersecurity across network, endpoint, and cloud. This program includes up to 24 months of formal technical instruction with hands-on labs, both group and individual projects, technical study, and professional skills development. As you advance through the program, you will be placed with various sales engineering teams to learn how to support customers during the pre-sales process.

While ramping on the Academy development track you will work alongside other SE teams to learn and support the other critical work with customers within the presales process. As part of your development, you will work as a technical advisor in tandem with our sales and channel partners on customer engagements, establishing relationships with customers with the goal of helping them ensure each day is more secure than the one before.

Upon completion of the program, you will have gained proven technical and professional skills, shown qualification across multiple certifications, and rotations with senior SEs to take on a field SE position in any number of cities across the US based on business needs. Our SEs are among the best in the cybersecurity industry, with a deep technical understanding of cybersecurity products, integrations, and the critical cyber threats facing our potential customers' environments.

Your Impact

• Learn the technical aspects and business value of Palo Alto Networks products
• Develop the skills necessary to propose cybersecurity solutions comprised of Palo Alto Networks products
• Establish yourself as a trusted team member to Technical Solutions leadership and colleagues while contributing to sales wins throughout the program
• Architect and propose solutions that address the identified cybersecurity problems in each customer's unique environment
• Develop presentation skills and understanding of business and technical discovery methods
• Ensure ongoing customer success, support, and adoption of cybersecurity solutions
• Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors
• Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions
• Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow up with the customer until the issue is resolved
• Continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (SASE, XDR, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)

Your Experience

• 4-year undergraduate degree, preferably in a business or technical field of study
• Understand and effectively present complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex problems and a systematic approach to creating solutions
• Effective time-management skills and study habits
• Awareness and desire to learn modern cybersecurity preventi on utilizing automation, cloud, endpoint, and network technologies

Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Pay and benefits

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.

$100,000.00 - $137,500.00/yr

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.