Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 5–7 years of experience in software engineering management leading distributed backend systems teams
• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a strong systems-level foundation, with primary expertise in Go (Golang) and concurrent programming patterns
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating high-concurrency microservices architectures at scale
• Deep understanding of infrastructure layers, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), with a focus on optimizing cost, latency, and resource utilization
• Empathetic, people-first leadership style with demonstrated success in mentoring engineers and building cohesive, high-trust team environments
• Forward-thinking approach to software engineering, with practical experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, automated testing/profiling) to elevate team productivity
• Hands-on experience with network discovery, traffic analysis, packet processing, or network protocol engineering.
• Experience with cloud-native message brokers, event streams, and databases (e.g., Kafka, gRPC, BigQuery, Redis, MongoDB)
• Experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, cloud security posture management (CSPM), or AI risk vectors What the job involves
• As an Engineering Manager on the AI Posture team, you will lead a high-performing backend team of 8–10 engineers operating in one of our most complex and cross-functional domains
• This role requires a blend of empathetic people leadership, operational excellence, and deep backend systems expertise—specifically around Go microservices, high-efficiency runtime environments, and lower-level infrastructure abstraction
• You will lead with empathy to support, empower, and grow your engineers while staying on the cutting edge by being an AI-savvy leader—embracing AI-driven development practices, modern engineering tools, and intelligent automation to boost team productivity and runtime performance
• Empathetic Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a backend engineering team using an empathy-first approach. Foster an inclusive culture of psychological safety, trust, empowerment, and continuous growth
• AI-Savvy Engineering Culture: Drive the adoption of modern AI tooling, modern engineering practice innovations, and intelligent automation across the software development life cycle to accelerate development and improve code quality
• Backend & Microservices Architectures: Lead the design, execution, and optimization of high-throughput, low-latency microservices built predominantly in Go
• Infrastructure & Platform Interaction: Partner directly with Infrastructure and Platform teams to ensure services interact seamlessly with cloud infrastructure, optimizing runtime efficiency, memory usage, compute density, and hardware/cloud resources
• Roadmap & Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Product Management, Security, and SRE teams to align priorities, translate technical strategy into execution, and deliver on multi-quarter roadmaps with predictability and speed
• Operational Excellence & Observability: Drive production readiness by enforcing rigorous standards for deployment pipelines, telemetry, tracing, performance tuning, and incident response across critical backend services
• Technical Communication: Clearly communicate technical trade-offs, systems architecture, risks, and strategies to executive leadership and strategic cross-functional partners Benefits
• Healthcare: We value your health and provide options so you can choose what best supports your lifestyle and personal health goals. Various nationwide plans — including Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, Delta Dental, VSP, and more — are available to you and your family. Our providers offer the flexibility you want and the coverage you need
• Wellness: With a large on-site gym and daily, instructor-led exercise classes at HQ in Santa Clara, Palo Alto Networks actively supports employee fitness. Our juice bar, Gym & Juice, features fresh juice blends, a quick and nutritious option pre- or post-workout. And our ongoing wellness speaker series highlights the latest trends in health and wellness
• Development: Professional development is serious business at Palo Alto Networks, where the Talent Development team offers 25+ courses to help employees boost their careers and develop leadership capability
• Financial: Most roles are eligible for equity grants, and we now offer new hires a quarterly vesting schedule right away. We want you to be fairly compensated and rewarded as soon as you make an impact – on our team, that happens immediately! And because we consider every employee a stakeholder in our long-term success, we offer an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a 24-month lookback. From life insurance to health savings accounts, we provide ways to help you protect and grow your wealth. Palo Alto Networks offers both traditional and Roth 401(k) options, along with a company match of 50% to a max annual amount of $1,000
• Time Off: In addition to paid corporate holidays, Flexible Time Off programs empower our employees to balance their work schedules with personal time off. We offer 12 weeks of full pay for medical leave and 6 weeks of full pay for parental leave. As a company with strong ties to the military and veterans, we also offer 26 weeks of full pay for military leave
• Perks: Our corporate discount program provides employees with significant discounts on merchandise, travel and entertainment. We offer many on-site perks at headquarters, including cafeterias, fuel service, dry cleaning service, EV charging stations, and a company store. We also provide complimentary drinks, fresh fruit, and snacks in break rooms across our campus to help everyone power through the day. Life at Palo Alto Network