Manager, Software Engineering Quality (Cortex Cloud)

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks, we're not just building products — we're redefining what's possible in cybersecurity. As a Manager, Software Engineering - Quality you'll play a critical role in our mission to secure the world’s digital transformation. Your work will directly impact the quality and reliability of the solutions that protect global enterprises every day. If you're a quality-driven leader with a passion for building scalable test strategies and want to shape the future of cloud security with a high-impact team, we’d love to connect with you.

Why Cortex Cloud?

• Market Leader – Be part of the fastest-growing cloud security platform, trusted by leading organizations around the globe — and help ensure its quality scales with its success.

• Innovative Culture – Collaborate with top minds in cybersecurity and automation, where your ideas for smarter, faster, and more secure testing will be valued and implemented.

• Massive Impact – As a Manager, Software Engineering - Quality, your leadership will directly impact the security and reliability of our products — ensuring that our solutions are thoroughly tested, stable, and production-ready to protect the world’s most critical digital assets.

• Rapid Growth – Join a high-velocity team where career growth and impact go hand in hand. As we scale, you'll have opportunities to take ownership, lead initiatives, and grow your technical expertise.

Your Impact

As the Manager, Software Engineering – Quality, you will:

• Support, coach, and develop your team members, empowering them to deliver high-impact results and grow in their careers.

• Drive release readiness through comprehensive regression, integration, and system testing, working closely with product management, DevOps, and engineering teams.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align quality initiatives with product objectives and ensure seamless integration of Quality efforts across the development lifecycle.

• Lead testing projects from requirement analysis through test strategy, design, and implementation, partnering with test leads and engineers to ensure thorough coverage and timely delivery.

• Oversee end-to-end release management, ensuring stable, timely, and high-quality software releases through effective cross-functional coordination.

• Maintain a broad technical perspective to proactively identify potential risks or inefficiencies, and work with senior engineers and leadership to drive resolution.

• Champion an automation-first culture by implementing robust Python-based test frameworks (e.g., PyTest) and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and cloud platforms.

• Own and evolve the test strategy, test plans, and automation coverage for large-scale distributed systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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