Palo Alto Sr Manager Software Engineering NGFW Cloud Security 

United States, California 

175501775

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As Software Senior Manager, you will lead the development team to deliver world-class Cloud Network Security and AI products and services. You will 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

• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed

• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new cloud network security as a service offerings to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality

• Contribute to the design, architecture, process, and development discussions

• Manage a software engineering team that builds, designs, implements, and maintains cloud network security service services

• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness

• Work closely with SRE and 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

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science, other engineering/technical degree

• 10+ years of experience in highly technical roles in development or enterprise services, at large organizations or innovative startups.

• At least 4+ years of experience managing software engineering teams

• Experience leading software development teams involved with Cloud Security service, Orchestration, Config Management, Monitoring, logging, etc...

• Experience with building and delivering configuration management workflows at scale

• Experience with cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP experience preferred)

• Good understanding of public cloud service design considerations and limitations in the areas of virtualization, global infrastructure, distributed systems, load balancing, networking, database, serverless, and security.

• Experience with Agile methodologies is a plus, a willingness to adopt them is required.

• Hands-on programming experience in one of the following: Python, Golang or C++.

• Experience with full-stack development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing, etc) of distributed cloud applications.

• Strong domain expertise in building and delivering large-scale Cloud Security service offerings.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $250K-$265K YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.