Director, SW Engineering (Prisma AIRS)
About The Position
Your Career The Prisma AIRS team is building the future of AI security. With organizations building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents, a dynamic new attack surface is emerging. Prisma AIRS delivers a comprehensive platform for AI security, encompassing model security, posture management, AI red teaming, and runtime protection. 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.
Requirements
- 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 Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
