Software Engineering Team Lead

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.

Who We Are

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 Description

Your Career

CWP (Cloud Workload Protection) is the security module inside Cortex Cloud that designed to secure cloud-native applications and cloud infrastructures, CWP empowers security teams to detect and prevent suspicious activity in compute resources in real-time, provides vulnerabilities management tools, asset inventory management views, full visibility to compliance standards and much more.

We are looking for a talented Backend-oriented engineering Team Lead that will manage our Compute Compliance engineering team, someone who is excited about cloud security, that can build, manage and deliver security features end-2-end in high-performance and large-scale systems. We're looking for someone that will be able to bring disruption and innovation into different areas in our compliance platform, someone who is not afraid to create / change processes and is able to build a healthy engineering culture.

Your Impact

You will have a major role in leading, managing and developing core parts of our Compute Compliance domain, focusing on Cloud-Native compute resources like Kubernetes, Virtual Machines, Function and CAAS services.

• Leading a team of 5 software developers.
• Working with your counterparts PM, Architect, UX, Frontend, Automation to define the scope and phases that will help to achieve the team's goals
• Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle to ensure the product performs reliably and meets defined SLAs.
• Ensure engineering best practices – from planning, design, development lifecycle, monitoring & observability, testing, quality, retrospective up to delivery to production.
• Hiring the best talent for the team, as the team is expected to continue growing
• Support your team members' growth by helping them define and achieve their individual career goals

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of experience working as a Backend / FullStack Software Developer
• 3+ years of experience as a Team Lead
• Experience in large organizations or innovative startups
• Development experience in Golang / Python / Java / C++ / C# or equivalent
• Strong domain expertise in security and cloud development.
• Skilled at working with architects, product, QA, Frontend and other stakeholders to drive alignment and shared goals.
• Open for learning, continuously seeks improvement, and encourages the same mindset in others.
• Takes full ownership of outcomes, drives issues to resolution, and fosters a culture of accountability within the team.
• Ability to understand team members' perspectives, provide mentorship, and create a safe environment
• Comfortable with change, able to pivot when necessary, and help teams remain focused and motivated under pressure.

Additional Information

The Team

The Cortex 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 problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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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.

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