Palo Alto Director SW Engineering Prisma AIRS 

United States, California 

592065335

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As the Director of Engineering, you will be a key leader, setting the technical vision and strategy for a significant area of development within Prisma AIRS. You will be responsible for driving the development of this industry-defining platform, scaling our engineering teams, and collaborating with senior leadership to ensure our technology strategy aligns with the broader business objectives.

Your Impact

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for your area of ownership within the Prisma AIRS engineering organization, managing multiple teams and engineering managers.

• Organizational Scaling: Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization. Excel at recruiting, mentoring, and retaining top-tier engineering talent and managers.

• Technical Vision: Drive the architectural direction for a complex, highly scalable, cloud-native AI security platform within your domain. Make critical high-judgment decisions on technology, architecture, and long-term design.

• Cross-Functional Execution: Partner seamlessly with senior leaders across Product Management, AI Research, UX, and other engineering leaders to deliver on a cohesive product roadmap.

• Executive Communication: Clearly articulate technical vision, strategy, project status, and risks to senior stakeholders and executive leadership.

• Culture of Innovation: Foster a results-oriented culture of innovation, execution, collaboration, and engineering excellence, empowering teams to solve challenging problems.

Your Experience

• Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: 12+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of building and shipping high-quality, large-scale, enterprise-grade cloud services.

• Leadership: 6+ years of formal engineering management experience, with experience leading multiple teams (managing managers is a plus).

• Technical Acumen: Exceptional technical judgment with deep, hands-on experience in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, distributed systems and cloud-native services (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

• Strategic Mindset: Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into a clear, actionable technical strategy and roadmap.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong executive presence and the ability to champion ideas and initiatives across the organization.

Nice to Have

• Deep experience in the cybersecurity domain (e.g., threat detection, network security, cloud security, application security).

• Direct experience with AI/ML platforms, MLOps, or building security solutions for AI systems.

• Proven track record of managing geographically distributed teams.

• Experience presenting at industry conferences or engaging with executive-level customers.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $274,000 - $295,400/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.