Software Engineering Manager (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Software Engineering Manager (Cybersecurity): Leading the engineering team to build distributed Control Plane for hirify.global’s Machine Identity platform with an accent on delivering cloud-scale services that secure certificate lifecycle and identity workflows. Focus on technical leadership, system design thinking, and people leadership to build resilient platform experiences.

Location: Hybrid in Santa Clara, CA

Salary: $201,000 - 251,000/year

Company

hirify.global, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a high-impact engineering team delivering Control Plane capabilities across distributed cloud systems.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader guiding architecture discussions, platform design decisions, and engineering execution.
• Drive delivery of scalable backend and frontend platform services supporting certificate lifecycle management and identity workflows.
• Partner with Product Management, UX, and Engineering Leadership to align technical direction with long-term platform strategy.
• Define clear engineering goals, execution plans, and delivery expectations across distributed teams.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence through coaching, feedback, and career development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Strong background building modern, scalable backend and/or web platform applications.
• Experience working with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, or platform services.
• Curiosity and passion for security fundamentals, especially x509, PKI, and certificate issuance protocols such as ACME and SCEP.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.
• Opportunity to drive execution on high-impact systems that power real-time identity operations, automation tooling, and secure cloud-native services.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Promote modern engineering practices that enable autonomous decision making and scalable collaboration.