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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.

Who We Are

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

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds and runs our connectors framework. In this role, you will be accountable for the team’s delivery across several concurrent projects, from platform enhancements to large programs that need multiple teams to collaborate. You will lead by example as a hands-on technical manager, grow the engineers on your team, and remove roadblocks so the connector engineers who build on your platform can move fast. What You’ll Do

• Own Team Delivery: Be accountable for delivering multiple framework projects and features at the same time. Make pragmatic trade-offs to deliver, and personally deliver features when the team needs it.

  • Own Team Delivery: Be accountable for delivering multiple framework projects and features at the same time. Make pragmatic trade-offs to deliver, and personally deliver features when the team needs it.
  • Lead Technically: Stay hands-on and lead by example. Guide the team through large, complex projects that need several teams to complete, such as migrating on-premises connectivity to a cloud-managed agent or extracting the integrations code into its own service. Design features in the framework yourself when needed.
  • Direct Quality and Reliability: Set the quality processes the team follows. Own framework reliability, including sync health, incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and resolution of security findings.
  • Develop Talent: Run 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting, and career guidance. Enable ownership on the team, resolve conflict, and grow engineers into their next level.
  • Remove Roadblocks Across Teams: Work closely with the connector development team, other product teams, SRE, security, and PM to keep work clear and unblocked.
  • Lead AI-First Engineering: Train the team on our tools and processes, including AI-assisted development workflows, and set the discipline for verifying AI-generated code.
  • Drive Initiatives: Run initiatives within the team, such as cutting the time it takes to build a new connector or reducing sync failures.
  • Keep Customers in Focus: Understand customer use cases and problems, and use them to set priorities with PM.
  • Build the Team: Actively recruit, lead interviews, and make hiring decisions.
  • Communicate Clearly: Present plans, progress, and risks to engineering and senior leadership.

• Identity & Access Security Domain: Direct experience with IAM, PAM, IGA, or Secrets Management platforms. • Integration Platforms: Experience leading teams that build integration frameworks, data pipelines, or SDKs used by other engineers. • Hybrid Connectivity: Experience with products that run agents inside customer networks. • Multi-Site Teams: Experience leading engineers across more than one office location. • DevOps & Observability Ecosystems: Practical experience with progressive delivery, CI/CD pipelines, feature flagging tools, and monitoring tools such as Datadog. Impact As an Engineering Manager on the connectors framework, you will lead the team that every connector in our product depends on. Your impact will be measured by your team’s delivery, the reliability of the framework in production, and the growth of the engineers you lead. Co-workers will look to you for clarity, technical judgment, and a steady path forward. Qualifications

  • People Leadership: Experience managing software engineers, including 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, and hiring.
  • Technical Depth: Strong hands-on background with Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and AWS, plus experience with data integration or distributed systems. Able to review designs and code with credibility.
  • Delivery Track Record: Proven record of delivering large, complex projects that need collaboration across several teams.
  • Operational Ownership: Experience running production services, leading incident response, and driving RCAs to durable fixes.
  • AI Tooling Adoption: Experience leading a team’s adoption of AI tools while keeping review rigor high.
  • Conflict Resolution & Influence: Able to resolve conflict, remove roadblocks across teams, and build strong working relationships with ICs and managers.
  • Communication: Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics to engineering and business audiences.
  • Customer Understanding: Good understanding of customer use cases, problems, and considerations.

Qualifications

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

From Palo Alto Networks's careers page (Workday), checked 15 Nov 2026.

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