Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to 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 you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
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!
We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
Job Summary
Your Career:
We are seeking an experienced, people oriented Engineering Manager to lead our high-performing Identity Authentication engineering team. Driving the modernization of core, mission-critical authentication domains across our primary product, delivering massive impact at scale. In this role, you will balance technical leadership, people development, and operational execution to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient SaaS cloud services. Working in close partnership with Product Management, Security Architects, and cross-functional engineering leaders, you will foster a culture of continuous delivery, technical excellence, and innovation. You will empower a team of talented engineers, remove roadblocks, and ensure our systems satisfy demanding global scale, high throughput, and Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs).
Your Impact:
Drive agile engineering practices to deliver high-quality, production-ready features on schedule while maintaining a strong balance between feature delivery, platform health, and technical debt.
Partner with domain experts to guide architectural decisions, review designs, leveraging no-code, low-code, and AI-based solutions.
Maintain high standards for service reliability, production health, automated testing (CI/CD), and incident response.
Mentor, coach, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers; conduct 1:1s, support career development, and foster an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture.
Align team goals with Product Managers, Security Architects, and global stakeholders to translate business strategy into clear technical execution plans.