Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks's Prisma Cloud team is looking for a seasoned and accomplished engineering leader with experience in Cloud Native technologies. You will be leading and scaling a world-class software engineering team, working to build Prisma Cloud Compute, which is a best in class product for container, host and serverless security.

You will be expected to lead and participate in all phases of the product development cycle, to ensure that the product is functioning well and meets its SLAs.

Your Impact

• Lead and mentor a team of 4-6 backend software engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Work closely with your team members through the entire development cycle (requirements, design, implementation)
• Lead scrum team of 8-10 members (Frontend, Backend and QA) with agile development methodologies
• Work closely with product and QA teams to ensure all features are on track in time and with good quality
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS/MS in Computer Science, other engineering/technical degree, MBA preferred or equivalent military experience required
• Proven 2+ years of experience in leading software engineering teams
• Hands on experience in the last 5 years
• Strong proficiency in low-level system programming, with a focus on Linux-based systems
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Effective communication and teamwork abilities
• If you are familiar with technologies such as eBPF, LD-preload, SELinux - this is a significant advantage
  
  

Additional Information

The Team

The Prisma Cloud team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises leverage public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in public cloud.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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 [email protected].

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.

Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.