Engineering Manager - Cross Platform (Cortex XDR)

Company DescriptionOur MissionAt 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.FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.Job DescriptionYour CareerWe are looking for an engineering manager to lead a cross-platform team in the Cortex XDR agent group. The manager will lead a group of several engineers personally and technically, making critical decisions and prioritizing the team’s work.The Cross Platform teams take part in the development of Cortex XDR Agent, a disruptive anti-exploit & anti-malware product. The XDR agent is the foundation of most of the Cortex products, providing the “boots-on-the-ground” for Palo Alto’s endpoint protection solutions. The team focuses on the endpoint, working on delivering a cross platform agent for Windows, MacOS & Linux, and builds revolutionary new capabilities to improve security and performance over millions of endpoints.More information about Endpoint Protection products can be found here.Your Impact

• Lead a team of several engineers through technical challenges, system design and large projects to deliver results
• Improve processes inside and outside the team - Work with other teams, Product, QA and other stakeholders to collaborate successfully
• Contribute from your experience to guide engineers of various experience levels to improve and write better, more effective code at a faster pace
• Own product flows technically, working with Product Managers on the engineering perspective of new features that are constantly delivered to customers
• Analyze and solve customer cases that arise from the field, corresponding with PANW’s “customer-centric” approach
• Team-building - From hiring to team morale, you’ll be responsible to hire the right engineers and keep them engaged and motivated
• Give engineers performance feedback

QualificationsYour Experience

• 5+ years of experience developing low-level code in an Object Oriented codebase
• 2+ years of development experience in C++
• Experience leading development teams and large projects
• Rich experience building and owning various software projects with the ability to contribute across the software development lifecycle
• A contagious positive mindset that can pull others through challenging workloads
• Computer Science B.Sc. or equivalent education or equivalent military experience required
• Experience with operating systems API - an advantage
• Experience with Python development - an advantage
• Experience in the cybersecurity space - an advantage

Additional InformationThe TeamOur engineering team is provided with an unrivaled chance to create the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career.Our CommitmentWe’re trailblazers who 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 disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected] 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.Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.