Senior Director Software Engineering (Cortex Cloud)

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks we lead the way in cybersecurity innovation. Our Cortex XDR and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) product offers a holistic solution that protects your entire digital infrastructure from user endpoints to cloud environments. We deliver comprehensive end-to-end security by monitoring and analyzing everythingfrom endpoint activity and user behavior to network traffic cloud workloads and containers. Through continuous threat detection and proactive incident response we offer a unified approach to Extended Detection and Response (XDR) ensuring the identification analysis and prioritization of security risks across your entire enterprise.

As the Software Engineering Sr. Director you will lead multiple backend engineering teams and groups dedicated to building and maintaining our industry-leading cybersecurity products. You will define and drive the vision and strategy for software development ensuring the highest delivery standards of quality security and close collaboration with product management platform teams and security researchers you will guide the delivery of innovative reliable solutions that address the evolving needs of our customers. A key part of your mission will be to harness AI-embedding AI-powered capabilities into both our products and engineering practices to secure the future of software development.

Your Impact:

• Engineering Leadership: Lead and mentor BE engineering teams driving recruitment retention and talent development. Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Product Development: Oversee the design and delivery of secure scalable software solutions ensuring best practices in security throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product security research endpoint engineering and platform teams to align engineering with business goals and customer needs.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 15 years of Software Engineering experience
• 8 years of managing multiple software engineering teams
• Experience with high scale & critical systems backend engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through organizational change balancing strategy with execution.
• Proven track record of delivering complex secure and scalable SaaS products.
• . Computer Science Software and Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience required
• Detailed oriented with an ability to drill down into the technical bits and bytes while enabling your employees to deliver.

 Advantage:

• Experience in the cybersecurity domain with a solid understanding of security.
• Additional Information

Additional Information :

The Team

Our team is a group of talented and mission-driven backend engineers who build and scale the core of Cortex XDR and Cloud Workload Protection. We work in close collaboration with product platform and research teams to deliver advanced cybersecurity solutions that protect organizations worldwide. The team thrives on solving complex challenges driving innovation with AI-powered capabilities and ensuring the highest standards of performance security and reliability.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time