Sr. Manager Engineering (Data Security)

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

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!

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks® Data Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering efforts across building new capabilities and running platforms at scale .

As an engineering leader, you will:

• Be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking security service offerings
• Lead the software development teams responsible to deliver highly scalable SaaS and Data Security solutions for a critical security portfolio
• Be expected to lead and participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation, test, and field deployment - This includes driving functional specifications, assessing task requirements and scheduling, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors

Your Impact

• Lead the technology strategy for building out  world class data security solutions, influencing critical decisions on technology, architecture, integration, and go to market
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality
• Contribute to the design, architecture, process, and development discussions
• Manages engineering teams that builds, designs, implements, and maintains cloud security infrastructure and platforms, owning e2e responsibilities of  the solution
• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness
• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team
• Foster innovation in the organization
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Hiring, developing, and mentoring software developers, and managing investments that accelerate scaling for new service offerings

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience in highly technical roles in development of enterprise services, at large organizations or innovative startups
• Extensive hands-on experience and working knowledge of security concepts -SaaS and Data Security, deep understanding of web protocols, integration with third party APIs and services
• Preferred experience with AI based conversational UI and chatbot platforms 
• Preferred experience with machine learning (building custom models, GPT-4 and LLMs)
• Experience with the agile process and leading software development teams involved with building out full stack products, deployed on the cloud at scale
• Experience with building and delivering services and  workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures
• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• 5+ years experience with cloud-based architectures (AWS/GCP experience preferred)
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following - Java, Golang, Python 
• 5+ years of experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, Mongo DB, Spring Boot
• Experience with full-stack development