Manager, Software Engineering - NetSec @ Palo Alto Networks

Your Career

The role is of a Manager who is motivated to build and lead one or more high-performing scrum teams and also contribute to the architecture and design of new products or features. The role demands to lead, motivate, mentor, and provide ample guidance to team members with respect to product capabilities and technical challenges. The role is also expected to make a difference to the product in terms of innovation, platform mindset, and best designs and contribute towards identifying technical risks and finding alternate solutions to problems.

Your Impact

• Manage a high-performing team of 12-15 engineers and own the accountability of complete end-to-end delivery
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation of engineering solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder and program management skills
• Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics
• Interact with PANW engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathon/demo days etc.
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
• Mentoring and coaching the team and helping them grow

Your Experience

• 10+ years experience in building products and managing high-performing teams
• Have led a team of 10-12 engineers and owned accountability of E2E delivery
• Excellent stakeholder and program management
• Extensive experience building services using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Python
• Advocacy for engineering and operational excellence.
• Exposure to developing large-scale data platforms using cloud technologies and Data warehouse products like BigQuery and Athena.
• Proficient in understanding and handling Non-Functional requirements (NFRs)
• Strong experience in running cloud-distributed system in production for at least 2-3 years
• Experience in creating high-performing, highly scalable, and distributed middle-tier services, in the Cloud like GCP or AWS
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• In-depth knowledge of Restful/SOAP web services
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (Junit/Spock/Jest etc) and code quality control platforms
• Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GCP DevOps
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like GCP and AWS
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology