Software Engineering Manager (Identity and Access Management, Chronosphere)
Palo Alto Networks
United States Posted October 9, 2026
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Salary Range
$175,400 - $283,800
Job Description
Join Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, as a Software Engineering Manager in the Identity and Access Management team. You will lead the development of our authentication and access control platform, ensuring reliability and security. Collaborate with your product manager to assess customer needs, co-create the roadmap, and drive execution. You will also guide the team through architectural decisions, hire and onboard engineers, and monitor system health. Enjoy a range of benefits including healthcare, wellness programs, professional development, financial perks, and flexible time off.
- Partner with the product manager to assess customer needs, co-create the roadmap, and own delivery against it.
- Guide the team through architectural decisions and technical design in the evolution of our granular access control framework.
- Hire and onboard engineers, coach them through any growing pains, and evolve the team's norms and delivery cadence.
- Experience building platform capabilities that other engineering teams adopt, driving adoption through collaboration and negotiation, and managing dependencies across product and infrastructure teams
- Strong product sense. You hold a technical and a product point of view at the same time
- Direct experience managing engineers. You have nurtured career growth, helped engineers increase their proficiency, and held engineers accountable to clear expectations
- Ability to partner with a PM to define and execute on a roadmap that accounts for trade-offs, customer commitments, corporate/compliance requirements, and the organization's product strategy
- Empathy for customers and engineers to enable your team to do their best work
- The technical depth to assess risk in design reviews, understand critical code paths, and evaluate engineering trade-offs directly
- Strong background in partnering with recruiting, making hiring decisions and closing hires, and building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe strongly that hiring is the responsibility of engineering management, and you should be able to demonstrate attracting, closing, and retaining engineers at multiple levels
- Familiarity with enterprise software and the expectations security-conscious customers place on access control, authentication, and auditability
- Experience shaping how a team operates and how it connects to the engineers on other teams who depend on it. You work with your engineers to set the norms, working agreements, and cross-team interfaces
Required Skills
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