Software Backend Engineering Manager AI (Cortex XSIAM)

Our Mission

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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!

Job Summary

Your career:
Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly technical hands-on Software Engineering Team Lead for our Cortex XSIAM group. You will manage a high-performing team of 3 senior and principal engineers to build a complex long-term AI agent project. This role requires a highly adaptable orchestrator - someone who can seamlessly drive cross-platform architecture collaborate with multiple Product Managers and infrastructure teams and remain deeply hands-on with the codebase.

Your Impact:

• Lead & Code: Manage a senior team while remaining heavily involved in writing reviewing and optimizing complex backend code.

• Architectural Leadership: Drive high-level design and cross-platform architecture across multiple repositories and products.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a central focal point aligning with various PMs and infrastructure teams to shape and deliver AI-driven solutions.

• End-to-End Ownership: Own the full development lifecycle from system design to production stability and real-time issue mitigation.

Qualifications

Your Experience:

• Management: 2-3 years of proven experience managing software backend engineering teams.

• AI Domain: Strong orientation to AI with practical experience in RAG architectures (e.g. RAG Harness).

• Senior Technical Background: Proven experience in highly senior individual contributor roles (e.g. Principal or Staff Engineer).

• Technical Expertise: Strong backend background with deep knowledge of Cloud technologies Databases and complex system design.

• Core Skills: Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills high adaptability and rapid learning capabilities.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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