Research Engineering Manager, Unit 42 (Remote)

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. 

Job Description

Your Career

The Unit 42 Engineering team specializes in providing tools enabling threat researchers and incident response consultants to work more efficiently across the vast amounts of data Palo Alto Networks has at its disposal. Our experts bridge the gap between application development using modern best practices/technology and the world-class research teams within Unit 42.

This role will challenge you to become a true force-multiplier, leading a team of developers that focus on our threat research and intelligence platforms, in order to centralize the collection, enrichment, and processing of threat data for Palo Alto Networks.

Your Impact

• Lead a global team of application developers focused on automating consulting services, consisting of a mix of internally built tooling both frontend and backend, Palo Alto Networks Products and third party commercial products
• Work with team members in growing their career by highlighting their strengths, improving upon their weaknesses, and building their soft skills to allow for high team cohesion and delivery
• Partner with security consultants in operational roles alongside product management teams to identify, prioritize, and execute strategies to increase our world class capabilities

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Proven history of working in a technical develop role, either as a sought after contributor, technical lead, or people manager
• Proficient writing software in Python, and ideally some frontend development experience as well (ReactJS, Typescript)
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to scope, size, prioritize, and execute on the engineering tasks
• Ability to inspire others to align towards a common goal, execute as a team, and keep morale high while continually challenging them to higher levels of performance
• Understanding of mature development processes and software engineering best practices using a modern technology stack
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience working on remote teams

Preferred Experience

• Experience leading engineering teams focused on security operations, detection engineering, or threat intelligence
• Hands on experience utilizing various database technologies (ElasticSearch, BigQuery, Redis, MariaDB, BigQuery, Neo4J) for very large datasets
• Experience working with security automation platforms such as XSOAR, InsightConnect, or Phantom, and detection & response tools such as CortexXDR, Splunk, or Microsoft Sentinel
• History of bringing data from disparate systems and backends together in a single platform such that relationships and insights can be gained from holistically
• Knowledgeable with cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure

Additional Information

The Team 

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation