Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

Palo Alto Networks; Burbank (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is seeking a leadership-focused Identity & Access Management role to drive security-forward access control and platform integration. You will partner with product, manage engineers, and align cross-functional teams around a scalable roadmap.

You will own design decisions, mentor engineers, and coordinate with security/compliance partners to satisfy customer commitments while scaling our granular access control framework.

Qualifications

• Empathy for customers and engineers to enable your team to do their best work.
• Strong product sense. You hold a technical and a product point of view at the same time.
• Familiarity with enterprise software and the expectations security-conscious customers place on access control, authentication, and auditability.
• Experience shaping how a team operates and how it connects to the engineers on other teams who depend on it.
• Ability to partner with a PM to define and execute on a roadmap that accounts for trade-offs, customer commitments, corporate/compliance requirements, and the organization’s product strategy.
• The technical depth to assess risk in design reviews, understand critical code paths, and evaluate engineering trade-offs directly.
• Direct experience managing engineers. You have nurtured career growth, helped engineers increase their proficiency, and held engineers accountable to clear expectations.
• Strong background in partnering with recruiting, making hiring decisions and closing hires, and building a diverse and inclusive team.
• Experience building platform capabilities that other engineering teams adopt, driving adoption through collaboration and negotiation, and managing dependencies across product and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with your product manager to assess customer needs, co-create the roadmap, and own delivery against it.
• Balance large investments alongside a steady cadence of customer requests while ensuring the team can deliver at a predictable pace.
• Guide the team through architectural decisions and technical design in the evolution of our granular access control framework.
• Hire and onboard engineers. Coach them through any growing pains, and evolve the team's norms and delivery cadence.
• Monitor SLOs, SLAs, and health of the system in production and take timely action to meet our reliability goals.
• Work with our security and compliance partners on reviews, audits, and the commitments we make to customers.

Skills

Empathy for customers

Leadership

Product mindset

Security-conscious

Cross-team collaboration

Recruiting coordination

Job description

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is seeking a leadership-focused Identity & Access Management role to drive security-forward access control and platform integration. You will partner with product, manage engineers, and align cross-functional teams around a scalable roadmap.

You will own design decisions, mentor engineers, and coordinate with security/compliance partners to satisfy customer commitments while scaling our granular access control framework.