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.

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.

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.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

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, exci