Manager, Software Engineering (Cortex Xpanse)

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 take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

The Xpanse ASM feature teams are expanding, and we’re looking for a Manager, Software Engineer. 

Xpanse helps protect some of the world’s most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. Our product engineering teams are responsible for building the user-facing security products that allow customers to turn trillions of Internet data points into critical cybersecurity insights. 

Your Impact

As the manager of a feature team, you will:

• Support, coach, and develop your team members, ensuring that they are empowered to deliver high output
• Define and tailor a flexible agile process to the needs of your team, ensuring smooth execution
• Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation, working through project leads and engineers
• Work with product management, UX, and your team to translate complicated datasets into intuitive user experiences, overseeing your team to successfully deliver on its roadmap goals
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering management leaders to align efforts across the product
• Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them
• Represent your team in departmental roadmap planning and be able to advocate for engineering-driven initiatives that will ensure long term technical success and sustainability
• Continuously seek ways to make a substantial impact on the broader engineering organization

Your Experience

• 8+ years of industry experience as a professional software engineer and manager building customer-facing software for a SaaS business, at least two of those years as a manager, providing your team with thoughtful feedback and the resources they need to be successful
• Significant experience providing technical and managerial leadership of teams building enterprise features on a multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale (examples: role-based access, SAML integrations, feature flag frameworks)
• Informed opinions about building and maintaining systems handling data at scale, and experience influencing their architecture
• Deep understanding of Agile development and how it pertains to all aspects of development - design, coding, quality, deployment - equally strong understanding of what to do when Agile doesn't work
• Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related Engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience or equivalent military experience required
• Willing and able to work in San Francisco, CA

The Team

The Xpanse ASM feature teams are expanding, and we’re looking for a software engineering manager. 

Xpanse helps protect some of the world’s most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. Our product engineering teams are responsible for building the user-facing security products that allow customers to turn trillions of Internet data points into critical cybersecurity insights. 

We're looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead one of our feature teams. The engineers on these teams are driven by both our overarching mission of making the internet a safer place for our customers and by the opportunity to build a seamless data-rich product experience for our users.

In this role we expect you to care first and foremost about better enabling your team. You’ll be leading a group of individuals with broad and diverse skill sets who come together to deliver on common goals. You’ll build individualized coaching and growth plans for your team members and

Your expertise will help define and secure the perimeters of the world's most important organizations.

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 $165000 - $267500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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  [email protected].

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes