Software Engineering Manager; Data Security

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting‑edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real‑world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real‑time problem‑solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Palo Alto Networks Data Security team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished 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

• 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

• Manage 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

• 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

• 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

• 3+ 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 Elastic Search, Redis,…