Engineering Manager Cross Platform Agent (Cortex XDR)

Your Career

We 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 teams 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 Altos 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.

Were looking for a manager that can own large projects guide his engineers and deliver results in short periods and in a rapidly changing environment. Someone with the ability to quickly understand the wider picture and the minute details of code and make decisions that prioritize progress and results. Finally a manager that can provide an example for the team create clarity in their work and foster a sense of independence and ownership.

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 PANWs customer-centric approach

• Team-building - From hiring to team morale youll be responsible to hire the right engineers and keep them engaged and motivated

• Give engineers performance feedback 

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 5 years of experience developing high-level code in an Object Oriented codebase

• 5 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 . or equivalent education

• Experience in Windows Mac or Linux internals - a big advantage

• Experience in cyber research and detection - a big advantage

• Experience with operating systems API - an advantage

• Experience with Python development - an advantage

• Experience with Go development - an advantage

Additional Information :

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve its critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes were facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that dedicatedly address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. These engineers arent shy about building products to tackle problems no one has pursued before. They define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our 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 dont wait for directions instead identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better this is your new career.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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  .

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time