Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Engineering Manager – Backend & Infrastructure (AI Posture)

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$197k-$319kDetected 7 days ago
GoMongoDBRedisBigQueryAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringgRPCKafkaCybersecurityIncident ResponseTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Empathetic Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a backend engineering team using an empathy-first approach.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Forward-thinking approach to software engineering, with practical experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, automated testing/profiling) to elevate team productivity.
  • 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.
  • If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
  • Required Qualifications
  • 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.
  • Preferred Qualifications
  • 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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Nice to have

  • 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.
  • Compensation Disclosure
  • $197,200.00 - $319,000.00/yr
  • We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo.
  • Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer.
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation

  • 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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below.
  • The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
  • $197,200.00 - $319,000.00/yr

Benefits

  • A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability.

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Equal opportunity

  • If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes
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