Principal Engineer, Marketing Technology

About

Palo Alto Networks is building AI-driven marketing technology platforms that enable intelligent automation, scalable workflows, and modern go-to-market execution.

Role

As a Principal Engineer in Marketing Technology, you will be a lead-level individual contributor responsible for designing and delivering key platform capabilities across AI agents, workflow orchestration, and full-stack systems. In this role, you will work closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional partners to translate GTM requirements into well-designed technical solutions. You will lead design and implementation for complex initiatives, influence technical direction within and across teams, and remain deeply hands-on with systems that are critical to marketing and revenue operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-driven systems, including agent-based architectures and workflow orchestration that automate and optimize marketing and GTM processes
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex MarTech initiatives, from technical design through implementation and operational readiness
• Build and evolve intelligent workflows that combine LLMs, rules, tools, and data signals to support personalization, lifecycle marketing, and operational automation
• Own full-stack solutions spanning user interfaces, APIs, backend services, data pipelines, and AI integration layers
• Partner closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical designs
• Influence architecture and implementation decisions within and across teams by clearly articulating tradeoffs and design rationale
• Promote strong engineering practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and system reliability
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, helping raise the bar on design quality and end-to-end ownership
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, simplify integrations, and replace brittle workflows with durable platform capabilities
• Stay current on advances in AI agents, orchestration patterns, and full-stack technologies, applying them thoughtfully where they add clear value

Benefits

• Healthcare: Various nationwide plans — including Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, Delta Dental, VSP, and more — are available to you and your family. Our providers offer the flexibility you want and the coverage you need.
• Wellness: With a large on-site gym and daily, instructor-led exercise classes at HQ in Santa Clara, Palo Alto Networks actively supports employee fitness. Our juice bar, Gym & Juice, features fresh juice blends, a quick and nutritious option pre- or post-workout. Our ongoing wellness speaker series highlights the latest trends in health and wellness.
• Development: The Talent Development team offers 25+ courses to help employees boost their careers and develop leadership capability.
• Financial: Most roles are eligible for equity grants, and we now offer new hires a quarterly vesting schedule right away. We offer an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 24-month lookback. From life insurance to health savings accounts, we provide ways to help you protect and grow your wealth. Palo Alto Networks offers both traditional and Roth 401(k) options, along with a company match of 50% to a max annual amount of $1,000.
• Time Off: In addition to paid corporate holidays, Flexible Time Off programs empower our employees to balance their work schedules with personal time off. We offer 12 weeks of full pay for medical leave and 6 weeks of full pay for parental leave. We also offer 26 weeks of full pay for military leave.
• Perks: Our corporate discount program provides employees with significant discounts on merchandise, travel and entertainment. We offer many on-site perks at headquarters, including cafeterias, fuel service, dry cleaning service, EV charging stations, and a company store. We also provide complimentary drinks, fresh fruit, and snacks in break rooms across our campus to help everyone power through the day.