Senior Manager, IT Software Engineering

Palo Alto Networks

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$191,800–$310,200 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity company offering network security, cloud security, and endpoint protection solutions.

Palo Alto Networks currently has 51 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $159,100–$257,400 across 47 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, IT Software Engineering

The Sr Manager, IT Software Engineering will lead a team building next-generation AI-powered applications for the Sales organization. This leadership role involves developing modern enterprise applications, intelligent workflows, agentic systems, and shared platform capabilities across the Sales technology ecosystem. You will oversee full-stack product engineering, backend services, data platforms, and integrations with enterprise systems like Salesforce and ERP platforms. Key responsibilities include driving practical adoption of LLMs, retrieval architectures, and model orchestration while establishing engineering standards for CI/CD, security, and observability. The role requires proficiency in Java, Python, Go, React, and Next.js. You will solve complex business problems by transforming transactional and analytical data into context-aware intelligence to improve seller productivity, account intelligence, pipeline execution, and forecasting within a production-grade environment.

What you'll do

  • Build and lead a high-performing team of full-stack, backend, AI, and platform engineers.
  • Lead the architecture and delivery of AI-powered applications for seller experiences, forecasting, and workflow automation.
  • Own full-stack product engineering including frontend experiences, APIs, backend services, and event-driven systems.
  • Drive the practical adoption of LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Define scalable architecture patterns for applications, data platforms, and integrations with enterprise systems like Salesforce.
  • Design high-volume data flows using APIs, streaming, and asynchronous processing to provide context for AI agents.
  • Establish engineering standards for CI/CD, automated testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to turn ambiguous business problems into scalable technical solutions and products.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience building enterprise software products, platforms, and distributed systems.
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Hands-on technical foundation in modern backend engineering using Java, Python, Go, or comparable languages.
  • Experience building modern web applications using React, Next.js, or comparable frontend frameworks.
  • Practical experience building production AI-powered applications using LLMs, retrieval/context architectures, agents, and intelligent workflows.
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures on GCP, AWS, or Azure, including containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
  • Experience building AI-powered applications for enterprise Sales, Marketing, or Customer Success functions (preferred).

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