Engineering Manager – Backend & Infrastructure (AI Posture)

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); Presencial; USD 197 000 - 319 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Palo Alto Networks in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an Engineering Manager on the AI Posture team to lead a backend group of 8–10 engineers.

You will drive Go microservices architecture, optimize runtime performance, and partner with Infra and Platform teams while embracing AI‑driven development. This role requires empathetic leadership and a track record of scalable systems in a fast-paced environment.

Qualificações

• 5–7 years of software engineering management leading distributed backend teams.
• 8+ years hands-on software engineering with Go and concurrent programming.
• Proven track record designing and operating high‑concurrency microservices at scale.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) with cost and latency optimization.
• Empathetic leadership with mentoring and building cohesive teams.
• Experience applying AI tools to improve development processes.

Responsabilidades

• Empathetic Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a backend engineering team using an empathy‑first approach.
• AI‑Savvy Engineering Culture: Drive the adoption of modern AI tooling across the software development life cycle.
• Backend & Microservices Architectures: Lead the design, execution, and optimization of high‑throughput, low‑latency microservices in Go.
• Infrastructure & Platform Interaction: Partner with Infra and Platform teams to optimize runtime efficiency and cloud resource usage.
• Roadmap & Cross‑Functional Alignment: Align with Product Management, Security, and SRE for multi‑quarter roadmaps.
• Operational Excellence & Observability: Enforce standards for deployment pipelines, telemetry, tracing, and incident response.
• Technical Communication: Clearly communicate trade‑offs and risks to leadership.

Conhecimentos

Empathetic leadership

Go (Golang)

Distributed systems

AI tooling adoption

Cross-functional collaboration

Ferramentas

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

gRPC

BigQuery

Redis

MongoDB

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Our Mission

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. 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.

Our Mission

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. 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.

Who We Are

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.

Job Summary

About the Role

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.

Key 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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. $197,200.00 - $319,000.00/yr

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes