Principal Technical Program Manager - Security and Compliance (Chronosphere)

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.

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!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

About us

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours.  Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affirm, and Zillow.

About the role

Responsibilities:

• Run Compliance Programs in Engineering

• Coordinate all phases of work across engineering related to security audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

• Assist engineering in planning work around future compliance regimes (e.g. FedRamp)

• Coordinate customer trust work across Engineering & Product

• Work with PANW Customer Trust teams to ensure correct information is provided to customers and prospects in response to security questionnaires

• Update answer banks and AI tools to reduce workload for PANW GRC teams

Navigate InfoSec Processes for Engineering

• Work with engineering and product teams to capture business or technical requirements which require special handling or exceptions from InfoSec and obtain those exceptions

• Collect and track security work assigned to Observability by Infosec, providing updates to Infosec teams while protecting roadmaps from disruption

• Request and maintain Third Party Risk Management for all unique-to-Chronosphere risks

Build and run Integration execution plans

• Work with Production Engineering to build a plan to migrate from a Managed Security

• Provider to internal security expertise. Drive execution of the plan.

• Work with Developer Infrastructure to build a plan to migrate to an “on-prem” software development lifecycle for code hosting, continuous integration, and deployment. Drive execution of the plan.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Significant (12-15+ years) experience working in highly technical environments (must include software engineering, production engineering, and information security)
• Experience with both on-premise and cloud-based technology services
• Understanding of delivering our product via a SaaS model, including best practices
• Comfortable communicating both with engineers and product (including leadership)
• Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g. JIRA, Linear)
• Experience in a lightweight Agile environment working with teams using Scrum

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.

$175,400.00 - $283,800.00/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.

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?: Yes