Senior Manager, Engineering

Overview

Lead the Idira Platform unit as Senior Manager of Software Engineering, overseeing three engineering teams of over 30 developers and tech leads that build the cloud-native foundation for Idira Security products.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and grow an organization of over 30 engineers across three teams, managing hiring, retention, performance, and the career development of engineering managers and tech leads.
• Take full ownership of high-priority platform initiatives, translating strategic goals into predictable multi-quarter plans and ensuring on-time, enterprise-grade delivery.
• Drive the design and deployment of resilient, highly scalable, and secure cloud-native services based on microservices architectures.
• Maintain complete accountability for the production health, service level agreements (SLAs), and operational rigor of all services owned by the unit.
• Accelerate the adoption of AI coding assistants, automated testing, and agentic workflows to improve developer throughput and code quality while maintaining strict security guardrails.
• Partner with architecture teams to enforce platform design standards, Zero Trust principles, and comprehensive data security requirements.
• Actively guide architectural trade-offs, lead deep technical discussions, and foster a collaborative culture of design reviews and continuous learning.

What you'll need

• 15 or more years of software engineering experience, with at least 6 years in leadership roles, including experience as a manager of managers overseeing 25 to 30+ engineers.
• Proven track record of delivering high-scale, enterprise-grade SaaS products and cloud-native platform services.
• Strong hands-on technical background with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Demonstrated success in owning production systems end to end, managing SLAs, observability, and incident resolution.
• Experience operating effectively within globally distributed organizations across multiple sites and time zones.
• Strong ability to drive complex programs through ambiguity and consistently deliver on technical and business commitments.
• Practical experience or a demonstrated commitment to integrating modern AI tooling into the software development lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience building internal platforms, shared services, or developer platforms utilized by multiple product teams.
• Domain expertise in Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), or Cloud Security.
• Background in infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud deployments, and platform reliability engineering practices.

Details

• Location: Office, Hyderabad, India.
• Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
• Palo Alto Networks will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.