AI-Driven Backend Engineering Manager (Go Microservices)

Palo Alto Networks; California; On-site; USD 197,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an Engineering Manager for the AI Posture team to lead a backend group of 8–10 engineers. You will shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive high‑performance Go microservices within a complex, cross‑functional domain.

You’ll partner with Infrastructure, Platform, Product, Security, and SRE to align roadmaps, ensure reliability, and push forward AI‑driven development practices, automation, and observability.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years leading distributed backend teams.
• 8+ years hands-on software engineering with Go.
• Experience designing high-concurrency microservices.
• Familiar with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Mentorship and safety‑focused leadership.

Responsibilities

• Empathetic leadership for a backend team of 8–10 engineers.
• Drive AI tooling and automation across SDLC to speed delivery.
• Lead design and optimization of high-throughput Go microservices.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Platform to optimize runtime.
• Align roadmaps with Product, Security, and SRE teams.
• Ensure production readiness with pipelines, telemetry, and tracing.
• Communicate trade-offs and architecture to leadership.

Skills

Go/Golang expertise

Distributed backend leadership

Empathetic leadership

AI tooling awareness

Cloud platform experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

BigQuery

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an Engineering Manager for the AI Posture team to lead a backend group of 8–10 engineers. You will shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive high‑performance Go microservices within a complex, cross‑functional domain.

You’ll partner with Infrastructure, Platform, Product, Security, and SRE to align roadmaps, ensure reliability, and push forward AI‑driven development practices, automation, and observability.