Director, SW Engineering (Prisma AIRS)

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.

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.

Qualifications :

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.

Additional Information :

The Team

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.

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 $274000 - $295400/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time