Senior Manager Software Engineering (Cortex)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your well-being support to your growth and development, and beyond!

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to be a part of a growing engineering group with the mentality and independence of a startup, supported by the power of a successful corporation. You will design and build an infrastructure and data pipelines that support billions of events per second, storing, processing, and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industry’s leading cyber products.

Your Impact

• You will be responsible for managing few teams and their managers, overseeing the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development, deployment, and support
• You will drive ideas and initiatives, making innovation a reality
• You will be building a team, ​​mentor, inspiring, support and helping your team members grow to be better professionals

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Passion to solve complicated problems, with “Can Do” attitude
• Experience in distributed cloud products, and big data architectures
• Experience with a variety of database and stream processing technologies (Cassandra / Google BigQuery Amazon Redshift / ElasticSearch / Mysql)
• Great time management, and ability to prioritize tasks for the team
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining a scalable server side application
• Experience in Go / Python - an advantage
• Experience with GCP - advantage
• Knowledge of the cyber field - advantage

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 accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.