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Software Engineering Manager – Machine Identity Control Plane

cyberark1Santa Clara
Hybrid Full-time

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Experience Level

Manager

Qualifications

Qualifications Required:5+ years of professional software development experience.2+ years in engineering management or technical leadership. Proven expertise in building modern, scalable backend and/or web platform applications. Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, or platform services. A strong passion for security fundamentals, particularly x509, PKI, and certificate issuance protocols like ACME and SCEP. An enthusiasm for reading RFCs and delivering comprehensive, end-to-end solutions. Exceptional communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and leadership teams. Capacity to swiftly learn new technologies and develop deep expertise in machine identity security.

About the job

Join CyberArk as a Software Engineering Manager leading the engineering team responsible for developing the distributed Control Plane behind our Machine Identity platform. This role is pivotal in delivering cloud-scale services that secure certificate lifecycle and identity workflows across a vast global infrastructure.

As a hands-on Engineering Manager, you will operate at the platform layer, guiding engineers across both backend and frontend domains while influencing architecture decisions, defining service boundaries, and ensuring long-term scalability within our distributed microservices architecture.

You will closely collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams to execute high-impact systems that facilitate real-time identity operations, automation tools, and secure cloud-native services. This position combines technical leadership, system design thinking, and people leadership to create robust platform experiences utilized by enterprises at a massive scale.

Your Responsibilities Include:

  • Leading and mentoring a high-impact engineering team in delivering Control Plane capabilities for distributed cloud systems.
  • Serving as a hands-on technical leader to steer architecture discussions, platform design decisions, and engineering execution.
  • Driving the delivery of scalable backend and frontend platform services that support certificate lifecycle management and identity workflows.
  • Partnering with Product Management, UX, and Engineering Leadership to align technical direction with the long-term platform strategy.
  • Defining clear engineering goals, execution plans, and delivery expectations across distributed teams.
  • Fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence through coaching, feedback, and career development.
  • Assisting engineers in navigating complex architectural challenges across microservices, cloud infrastructure, and Control Plane workflows.
  • Promoting modern engineering practices that enable autonomous decision-making and scalable collaboration.
  • Removing blockers, enhancing cross-team execution, and driving continuous improvement in platform development.

About cyberark1

About CyberArk:CyberArk, a leader in identity security and a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, empowers organizations worldwide to secure human and machine identities within the modern enterprise. Our AI-driven Identity Security Platform implements intelligent privilege controls for every identity, ensuring continuous threat prevention, detection, and response throughout the identity lifecycle. With our Identity Security solutions, organizations can significantly minimize operational and security risks by adopting a zero trust approach and least privilege access, granting comprehensive visibility and secure resource access for all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers, and machines. Discover more at CyberArk.

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