Sr Manager Product Security Engineering

Company Description

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.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

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!

Job Description

Your Career 

Developing industry-leading security tools is tough, and ensuring they are built securely is just as tough, especially when operating at scale. It takes a lot of effort, coordination, and often custom tooling on top of the already industry-leading tools that are used to secure some of the largest companies in the world.

The Product Security Engineering Team is looking for driven individuals who know how to collaborate within our team, and with all of the other amazing teams in Palo Alto Networks. As the manager you will work closely with other leaders to coordinate priorities and efforts between requests from other teams, needs for the Product Security AI Security  teams, and general improvements for all InfoSec teams.

Your Impact 

• Products Security Roadmap  Design & Development

  • Lead and implement a proactive product security program covering threat assessment, secure architecture reviews and Secure Code to cloud strategy for complex engineering SDLC.

  • Build vs Buy Research and Evaluation

  • Take ownership and lead the Security posture for production services for Palo networks product portfolio.

  • Building relationships with key stakeholders including engineering managers, product managers and company leadership to integrate security into business goals.

  • Creating and managing security policies, standards and procedures to be followed by product teams.

  • Solve Unique Problems!

• Provide real time feedback to product teams to identify feature gaps and influence the development of Palo Alto’s products themselves

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in leading security engineering roles at large organizations or innovative startups

• Guide and grow a capable security engineering group focused on driving impact through quantifiable security improvements.

• Knowledge of software and cloud security lifecycle deployment and security automation frameworks in GCP, AWS and/or Azure

• Drive the product strategy and technology roadmap for automated software security testing tools like SAST, SCA, and DAST.

• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence development without authority

• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both the business and technical sides of the business

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers.  They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work. 

Think about it:  Driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined by the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams are on the front line o