Manager, Engineering (AI Posture)

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

19d • Onsite

About The Position

As a full stack Engineering Manager at the AI Posture team, you will lead a team of 8-10 engineers operating in one of our most complex and cross-functional domains. This role requires a strong blend of people leadership and deep technical expertise, including systems design and large-scale distributed cloud architectures. You will be responsible for driving the design and delivery of complex, high-impact systems, while ensuring the team executes against the roadmap with both speed and engineering rigor.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience managing software engineering teams within a large-scale organization.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a strong systems-level foundation.
• Proven ability to plan, execute, and deliver complex roadmaps with high predictability, owning distributed cloud products end-to-end.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams through the delivery of complex, data-rich web applications with a focus on performance and usability.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale cloud architectures on platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong collaboration skills with a track record of aligning cross-disciplinary teams around shared objectives.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in modern frontend frameworks (React/TypeScript) and a deep understanding of the DOM, browser APIs, and CSS-in-JS patterns.
• Experience with programming languages such as Go & Python.
• Familiarity with large-scale data platforms, including BigQuery, MongoDB, and MySQL.
• Experience with data visualization libraries for representing complex security relationships or AI risk vectors.
• Professional experience in cybersecurity, data security, or threat intelligence.
• Experience operating and maintaining highly distributed services at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing software engineering team, fostering a culture of empowerment and driving both individual growth and collective impact.
• Partner closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams (Infrastructure, UX, SRE & QA) to define priorities and shape multi-quarter product roadmaps, ensuring alignment across all stakeholders.
• Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, translating product strategy into executable plans and ensuring consistent, high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Provide architectural leadership for scalable, distributed systems guiding the design and implementation of high-throughput, cloud-native applications.
• Drive production readiness by enforcing best practices around deployment, observability, reliability, and runtime stability, focusing on the details to ensure operational excellence.
• Align stakeholders across business units through clear communication of technical strategy, trade-offs, priorities, risks, and execution plans.
• Engage directly with strategic customers to lead technical deep dives and architecture reviews, and to influence future product direction.
• Foster a culture of high engineering standards, accountability, and continuous improvement, with a strong emphasis on quality and security.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees