team manager engineering - secure agentic ai

company description
about us
A palo alto networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. We are ai-powered identity security platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. with identity security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, it, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere.
job description:
were building foundational infrastructure to secure ai agents-including their identities, access patterns, and interactions with sensitive systems and data. this includes designing intelligent, dynamic mechanisms for ephemeral access control, secrets management, and agent and user identity tailored to the modern agent ecosystem.
as the team lead, youll not only help define how agents authenticate, receive scoped access, perform actions securely, and leave behind a verifiable audit trail - youll also be responsible for building and leading a high-impact engineering team from the ground up.
this is a rare opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership-writing critical code, mentoring engineers, sharing knowledge, and driving best practices-while building a platform from the ground up at the cutting edge of ai, identity, and security.
Responsibilities:
lead the end-to-end development of a secure platform for managing ai agents identities, permissions, access control, and execution context. recruit, onboard, and mentor a team of engineers, shaping the teams culture and technical direction. drive the design and implementation of core services, ensuring high performance, security, and maintainability. enforce engineering excellence and best practices, including testing, code reviews, observability, secure coding, and ci/cd pipelines. stay hands-on: actively contribute to critical paths in architecture, prototyping, and complex problem-solving. ensure your teams deliverables meet high standards of performance, resilience, and security in production.