
Engineering Manager (Custom Apps)
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
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 AreWe take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.Job DescriptionYour CareerThe IT team is looking for a seasoned engineering manager with previous team management experience, and a unique blend of technical leadership, people leadership, and business skill sets. The incumbent will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Customer Support, and other cross-functional teams to deliver strategic organizational priorities. In addition to managing a team, the successful candidate will also be an active contributor in areas of product design, architecture and/or implementation. This role would be perfect for someone who enjoys a management role while also wanting to utilize their technical software engineering skills.Your Impact
- Manage, lead, mentor, and coach one or more engineering teams
- Be accountable for the engineering quality of the subject matter areas your teams are responsible for
- Work closely with product managers to refine business requirements in alignment with good design principles
- Work closely with team leads and architects to create good engineering designs that meet business requirements and align with good architectural practices
- Ability to translate technology into business value
- Working in conjunction with management and colleagues, define, document, and demonstrate good software engineering practices
- Stay up-to-date on new technology changes and features to provide recommendations for process improvements and feature adoption
- Facilitate project delivery from your teams, working in conjunction with product managers, business analysts, business partners, and system administrators
- Plan, drive and execute business critical custom apps and microservices Roadmap
- Facilitate production support affecting the system areas your teams are responsible for
- Identify risks and prepare mitigation plans
- BE/B.tech technical degree or relevant tech qualification or equivalent military experience required
- 10 to 15 years total experience in software development with programming languages experience in JAVA /J2EE
- Extensive Experience working with Spring boot Microservices - (You will have to take coding and design tests)
- Experience with Database Management Systems (MySQL, SQL server and PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Oracle Database)
- Experience with building agent AI, prompt engineering and would be enthusiastic to move the needle in that direction
- Minimum 2 years of team management experience as manager capacity - Techno functional management, team management, people management
- Good hands on Expertise in Cloud Platforms, GCP OR AWS OR Azure
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineers to deliver working software on time and with high quality
- Demonstrated understanding of good software engineering practices
- Excellent engineering skills on the platform(s) your teams work on
- Strong time management and team management skills
- Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills - Strong architectural skills on the platform(s) your teams work on is a strong advantage
- Knowledge of front end technologies like React and Angular is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills