Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.
Job Description
Your Career
The role is of a Senior Manager who is motivated to build and lead one or more high-performing scrum teams and also contribute to the architecture and design of new products or features. The role demands to lead, motivate, mentor, and provide ample guidance to team members with respect to product capabilities and technical challenges. The role is also expected to make a difference to the product in terms of innovation, platform mindset, and best designs and contribute towards identifying technical risks and finding alternate solutions to problems.
Your Impact
- Manage a high-performing team of 12-15 engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery
- Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder and program management skills
- Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics
- Interact with PANW engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
- Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
- Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
- Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.
- Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc.
- Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
- Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow.
Qualifications
Your Experience
- 10+ years experience in building products and managing high-performing teams
- Have led a team of 10-12 engineers and owned accountability of E2E delivery
- Excellent stakeholder and program management
- Extensive experience building services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Python
- Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence.
- Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery and Athena.
- Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs)
- Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years
- Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like GCP or AWS
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
- In-depth knowledge of Restful/SOAP web services
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms
- Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
- Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms like GCP and AWS
- Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology
Additional Information
The Team
Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. We are on a mission to build the industry's best Security large language model.
We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.
Our Commitment
We’re problem solvers that 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 [email protected].
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.
Covid-19 Vaccination Information for Palo Alto Networks Jobs
- Vaccine requirements and disclosure obligations vary by country.
- Unless applicable law requires otherwise, you must be vaccinated for COVID or qualify for a reasonable accommodation if:
- The job requires accessing a company worksite
- The job requires in-person customer contact and the customer has implemented such requirements
- You choose to access a Palo Alto Networks worksite
- If you have questions about the vaccine requirements of this particular position based on your location or job requirements, please inquire with the recruiter.
What We Do
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.
Why Work With Us
Leading the way puts us at the very center of innovation and complex problem solving. We see challenges and opportunities before the rest of the world is aware there is a threat. We believe you’ll find work here inspiring and deeply purposeful. We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs.
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