Palo Alto Networks
Engineering Manager – Backend & Infrastructure (AI Posture)
$197K–$319K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5–7 years in software engineering management and 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads an 8–10-person backend engineering team building and operating high-throughput, low-latency services for the AI Posture team, while improving infrastructure efficiency and adopting AI-enabled engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Mentor and lead the team, fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture and supporting engineers’ growth.
- Lead the design, delivery, and optimization of Go microservices and their cloud and infrastructure interactions.
- Coordinate roadmaps with Product, Security, Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams; drive operational readiness, observability, performance, and incident response.
What they ask for
- 5–7 years of software engineering management experience leading distributed backend systems teams.
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong systems-level foundations and primary expertise in Go (Golang) and concurrent programming.
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-concurrency microservices at scale.
- Understanding of infrastructure layers, container orchestration, and cloud platforms, with a focus on cost, latency, and resource use.
Nice to have
- Experience with network discovery, traffic analysis, packet processing, or network protocol engineering.
- Experience with cloud-native brokers, event streams, databases, or cybersecurity.
Pay
$197,200.00 - $319,000.00/yr (USD, base salary)
Tools
Go (Golang), Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kafka, gRPC
AI focus
Leads adoption of AI tools and intelligent automation in software development, including coding assistants and automated testing or profiling, to improve productivity and code quality.
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