Dir, SW Engineering (DLP - Data Security Platform)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career

We're looking for an engineering leader who has experience in building and supporting large-scale distributed systems in the cloud to lead our engineering organization for Data and SaaS

In this role, you will be responsible for leading engineering teams building critical components for the Data Security Platform (DSP), including solutions for incident management, UEBA, and an AI Access platform that allows IT teams to operationalize Shadow IT for AI apps.This role offers an unrivaled opportunity to collaborate with tech leaders across Cloud Delivered Security Service (CDSS) and build skills to influence every aspect of delivering an enterprise-class cloud security service.

Your Impact

• Provide engineering and operational leadership to the teams in close partnership with teams across CDSS.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, disruption, quality, and speed
• Hands-on technical leader who can guide the team through tough architectural decisions and communicate effectively with customers
• Be a strong partner with product management, customer success and other engineering teams
• Ability to hire and retain a world-class and diverse engineering, infrastructure, SRE and security research team
• Work closely with the product management organization to influence, develop and deliver on roadmaps
• Recognize process gaps early and able to motivate change to achieve better outcomes
• Foster innovation in the organization

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 15+ years of Engineering experience with BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience combined with strong management and communication skills
• Extensive experience on architecture design of large scale data platforms, machine learning, analytics, and data-drive applications
• Experience in building and managing strong technical teams
• Proven experience attracting, retaining, and growing top engineering talent across geographically distributed teams
• Ability to nurture and support a strong operations culture - customer/service focus excellent technology - high quality implementations - self-motivated innovation and problem-solving
• Can-do attitude on problem-solving, quality and ability to execute
• Has experience building security products and is well versed with the security landscape
• Demonstrated ability of establishing and maintaining metrics-based process improvement
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong partnerships with those outside of your immediate organization

Additional Information

The Team

You'll be working in a top tier cybersecurity company and collaborating with some of the brightest minds in technology. Our team doesn't shy away from tackling big problems. You will help build and support the tools and infrastructure enabling our developers to release the products that our customers depend on to defend against cyberattacks. Joining this dynamic and fast-paced team will give you the opportunity and thrill of resolving the technical and process gaps that hold back productivity.

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 $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

We're problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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