Director, Software Engineer Data security (Cortex Cloud)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto 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 youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre 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!

Job Summary

The Team

Job Summary

As the Software Engineering Director you will lead backend engineering teams and groups dedicated to building and maintaining our industry-leading cybersecurity. You will define and drive the vision and strategy for software development ensuring the highest delivery standards of quality security and close collaboration with product management platform teams you will guide the delivery of innovative reliable solutions that address the evolving needs of our customers and safeguarding our clients data within the dynamic cloud landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor BE engineering teams and managers driving recruitment retention and talent development. Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation

• Oversee the design and delivery of secure scalable software solutions ensuring best practices in security throughout the development lifecycle

• Work closely with product design and platform teams to align engineering with business goals and customer needs

• Drive innovation by designing and implementing impactful solutions that address client needs contributing to the full feature development lifecycle from design to deployment

• Take ownership of wide feature segments ensuring high-quality code and robust functionality through meticulous attention to detail and a focus on execution

• Proactively collaborate and exchange information with cross-functional teams including product and infrastructure to ensure seamless integration and alignment on shared objectives

• Engage in technical discussions openly sharing knowledge and learning from others to solve complex problems and elevate team expertise

• Design and build highly scalable resilient and secure cloud-based applications and microservices

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 12 years of Software Engineering experience

• 8 years of managing multiple software engineering teams

• Experience with high scale & critical systems backend engineering

• Experience working with different cloud services on at least one major cloud provider

• Demonstrated ability to lead through organizational change balancing strategy with execution

• Proven track record of delivering complex secure and scalable SaaS products in a micro-services environment

• . Computer Science Software and Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience required

• Detailed oriented with an ability to drill down into the technical bits and bytes while enabling your employees to deliver

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of cybersecurity information security and software security principles

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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