Principal Product Manager - Logging & Streaming Data Platform

Our Mission

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Who We Are

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

Shape the core data backbone powering enterprise-scale network security. Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Product Manager to define the multi-year vision, overarching architecture strategy, and portfolio-wide roadmap for the Strata Logging Service and the foundational data platform capabilities driving Strata Cloud Manager.

The scope encompasses exabyte-scale log and telemetry ingestion, real-time distributed streaming engines, unified security data lakes, multi-tenant retention architectures, and high-throughput forwarding systems. These capabilities serve as the mission-critical foundation for Palo Alto Networks' security visibility, real-time threat detection, advanced analytics, and AI-driven autonomous security operations.

Operating at the strategic intersection of enterprise security requirements, large-scale distributed systems, and cloud economics, this Principal PM will drive platform strategy in tight partnership with Principal/Distinguished Engineers and executive leadership. You will make architectural and financial tradeoff decisions across global throughput, sub-second latency, data freshness, zero-downtime reliability, and cloud infrastructure margins.

Location: Palo Alto Networks Headquarters (Santa Clara, CA)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days/week onsite)

Your Impact

• Platform Vision & Strategy: Own the end-to-end strategy, architectural evolution, and multi-year vision for the Strata Logging Service, transforming raw network telemetry into a high-value, AI-ready enterprise data asset.
• Architectural Tradeoff Leadership: Partner with Distinguished Engineers and Systems Architects to evaluate high-stakes platform tradeoffs across ultra-high-throughput ingestion, real-time processing, schema governance, zero-data-loss durability, and global cloud infrastructure cost efficiency.
• Portfolio-Wide Influence: Act as the foundational data platform leader across all Palo Alto Networks product lines, ensuring unified logging, telemetry standardizations, and seamless data accessibility for downstream security engines and third-party ecosystems.
• Enterprise Customer & Executive Sponsorship: Serve as a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CISOs, VP of Infrastructure, and SecOps leaders, synthesizing complex enterprise requirements into scalable, platform-wide capabilities.
• AI & Next-Gen Innovation: Architect data pipeline capabilities specifically tailored for next-generation AI/ML security workflows, real-time operational automation, and predictive analytics.
• Data Governance & Multi-Tenancy Architecture: Establish standards for global data sovereignty, multi-tenant isolation, enterprise access control frameworks (RBAC/ABAC), compliance standards, and schema evolution across dynamic security event models.
• Cloud Infrastructure Economics: Lead long-term unit-economic modeling for data ingestion, compute, storage, and egress, driving platform innovation that delivers best-in-class gross margins alongside high-performance SLAs.
• KPI & Business Outcomes Ownership: Establish executive-level operational and business metrics covering platform availability, ingestion SLA compliance, adoption velocity, platform unit economics, and customer ROI.
• Cross-Functional Executive Alignment: Align product marketing, go-to-market (GTM), field engineering, and executive leadership on major platform shifts, pricing/packaging paradigms, and developer integration frameworks.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive product management experience, with a proven track record of leading high-scale, enterprise-grade cloud platforms, SaaS infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Deep Domain Expertise: Demonstrated success leading exabyte-scale logging, observability, SIEM, streaming data pipelines, or security data lake platforms.
• Architectural Mastery: Mastery in evaluating distributed systems architecture, real-time streaming engines, cold/hot storage tiering, data lakes, and API-first ecosystem strategies.
• Executive Presence: Proven ability to influence C-level enterprise stakeholders, cross-functional engineering VPs, and principal technical leaders without direct authority.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Demonstrated expertise in cloud unit economics (COGS), multi-tenant SaaS margin optimization, and strategic pricing/metering for data-intensive platform capabilities.
• Track Record of Scale: Proven experience driving platform capabilities from incubation to multi-million-user global scale while maintaining enterprise-grade SLAs ($99.99\%+$ availability).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent technical practical experience (Master’s or MBA preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Strategic background in network security, Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), SASE, or enterprise SecOps ecosystems.
• Hands-on familiarity with cloud-native data streaming technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Flink, Pulsar) and modern lakehouse architectures (e.g., Iceberg, Delta Lake, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Direct experience building data infrastructure tailored for LLM training, real-time AI inferencing, or automated security orchestration.
• Experience defining enterprise-grade data export, API gateway architectures, and partner integration ecosystems.
• Deep knowledge of global data privacy laws, data residency frameworks (GDPR, CCPA), and industry security certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).

Compensation Disclosure

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.

$176,800.00 - $286,000.00/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.

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.

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