Manager, Software Engineering - Production Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure (Chronosphere)

Palo Alto Networks; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 165,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is seeking an Engineering Manager for Developer Infrastructure. You will nurture a strong team, manage the roadmap, and balance priorities across multiple projects while supporting engineers at every career stage.

You will collaborate with Infrastructure leadership to drive scalable processes, ensure reliability, and recruit top talent. This role is remote with cross-geography collaboration and a strong focus on culture and impact.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers and managing roadmaps.
• Strong people development and coaching skills.
• Ability to balance long-term strategy with day-to-day execution.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, build automation, and modern SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a growing Developer Infrastructure team.
• Own the engineering roadmap for Developer Infrastructure.
• Set priorities with Infrastructure leadership and drive delivery.
• Ensure reliability and uptime of developer systems and tools.
• Partner with other engineering leaders to scale processes across teams.
• Maintain a healthy team culture with support from People team.

Skills

Engineering management

People development

Roadmap ownership

Cross-team collaboration

Prioritization

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

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!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

About us

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affir�? and Zillow.

About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Developer Infrastructure team. You’ll be responsible for nurturing a strong existing team responsible for the process and technology that support our internal software development teams. You should be comfortable maintaining a complex roadmap and have the ability to prioritize and balance work across our individual contributors. You know how to support engineers at all stages of their career, and are motivated to help them do their best work.

Qualifications

You Will

• Support and develop engineers through feedback and coaching, setting context and expectations, and eliminating barriers to execution.

• Own the engineering roadmap for Developer Infrastructure and manage projects within that roadmap.

• Set priorities in partnership with the Infrastructure leadership team, establish delivery sequence, and drive day-to-day execution against those priorities.

• Own the reliability of our Developer Infrastructure. Our engineering teams are responsible for the uptime of their systems, and you will ensure that your team has the focus, tools, and process needed to maintain reliability.

• Partner with other engineering leaders in driving process changes across teams to ensure that we continue to scale effectively.

• Be responsible for maintaining a healthy culture in your team, with support from engineering leadership and the People team.

What you will achieve

In the first month, you will build a deep understanding of Chronosphere’s infrastructure and your team. You will have time to learn about how our product uses cloud technology, our developer’s needs, your team’s roadmap, and will contribute to day-to-day execution as you gain familiarity with your projects.

In 3 months, you will take over execution planning and fully manage your direct reports. You will understand our longer-term Developer Infrastructure strategy, our internal customers, our technical and financial constraints, and how we support our developer’s work experience.

After 3 months, you will take ownership of the roadmap for our Developer Infrastructure, working with leadership to establish priorities and a delivery plan and driving hiring and day-to-day execution against that plan.

You have

• Empathy and an understanding of how to empower and support engineers to do their best work.

• A high level of organization and the ability to manage multiple projects from initial concept through delivery and production support. You should be comfortable iterating from high level requirements to execution plan, and have a track record of successfully delivering multiple complex concurrent projects.

• Extensive experience with full developer toolchains in a modern SDLC including CI/CD technologies, build automation and pipelines, and automated testing. You stay current with best practices and emerging technologies in Developer Infrastructure.

• Familiarity with public cloud infrastructure supporting multi-tenant software as a service products. We deliver a highly reliable service to demanding business customers, and you should understand how this impacts the way product is built, validated, released, and operated.

• Strong background in partnering with recruiting, making hiring decisions and closing hires, and building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe strongly that hiring is the responsibility of engineering management, and you should be able to demonstrate attracting, closing, and retaining engineers at multiple levels.

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 (https://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

$165,000.00 - $267,500.00/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.

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 [e-mail] .

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