Mgr, SW Engineering NetSec

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.

Who We Are

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.

Job Description

Your Career

The role is of a Manager who is motivated to build and lead one or more high-performing scrum teams and also contribute to the architecture and design of new products or features. The role demands to lead, motivate, mentor, and provide ample guidance to team members with respect to product capabilities and technical challenges. The role is also expected to make a difference to the product in terms of innovation, platform mindset, and best designs and contribute towards identifying technical risks and finding alternate solutions to problems.

Your Impact

Manage a high-performing team of 12-15 engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery

Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.

Excellent stakeholder and program management skills

Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics

Interact with PANW engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.

Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.

Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.

Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products

Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.

Participating in organizational events like hackathon / demo days etc.

Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.

Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow

Qualifications

Your Experience

10+ years experience in building products and managing high-performing teams

Have led a team of 10-12 engineers and owned accountability of E2E delivery

Excellent stakeholder and program management

Extensive experience building services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Python

Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence.

Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery and Athena.

Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs)

Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years

Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like GCP or AWS

Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

In-depth knowledge of Restful / SOAP web services

Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit / Spock / Jest etc) and code quality control platforms

Experience in CI / CD development environments / tools : Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps

Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies

Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.

Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.

Knowledge of cloud platforms like GCP and AWS

Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

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 are on a mission to build the industry's best Security large language model.

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 problem solvers that 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.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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.