Sr Director, Software Engineering

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

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 responsible for Development, SRE and Research functions for fast-growing cloud services to provide next-generation data security for Network and enterprise SaaS applications such as Box, Dropbox, GitHub, Google Apps, Slack, Salesforce and many more. These services enable organizations to store terabytes of sensitive data in these SaaS applications while preventing any security threats to their cloud. This role will also give you an unrivaled opportunity to collaborate with many of our supported SaaS vendors 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 in India
• 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

• Overall 20+ 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

Our DLP service is the industry's first cloud-delivered Enterprise DLP solution that uses AI and Machine Learning to automatically, discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across everyday SaaS applications. This fast-growing cloud service provides visibility and real-time security for SaaS applications. This team is a critical group within the Prisma SaaS team that has just started scratching the surface of the huge CASB (Cloud acc