Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Prisma Browser

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an exceptional Senior Director of Engineering to serve as the local site leader for our Prisma Access Browser engineering organization in Santa Clara, CA. Prisma Browser represents a category-defining leap forward in enterprise security, delivering an uncompromised enterprise browsing experience deeply integrated into our broader Network Security and SASE ecosystem. This high-visibility role serves as the key leadership anchor for our rapidly growing local team and functions as the primary bridge to our global engineering hub in Tel Aviv.

As the senior engineering leader in Santa Clara, you will own the end-to-end operational execution, talent scaling, and cross-functional alignment for Prisma Browser at HQ. You will maintain our aggressive, high-velocity continuous delivery model while partnering seamlessly with local Product Management, Go-To-Market (GTM), Customer Support, and executive platform leadership.

The ideal candidate is a battle-tested engineering leader with deep roots in cybersecurity and endpoint software models, a track record of driving rapid continuous deployment, and demonstrated AI fluency. You bring natural cross-cultural leadership dexterity with proven experience aligning distributed international hubs across significant time-zone differences while maintaining a relentless customer-centric focus on real-world impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the site leader for Santa Clara Prisma Browser engineering. Directly mentor, sponsor, and scale a multi-team organization, cultivating an inclusive, high-trust environment defined by technical excellence, accountability, and operational agility.
• Act as the primary bridge between our Tel Aviv and Santa Clara engineering teams. Seamlessly translate architecture vision, culture, and operational priorities across international teams while navigating complex time-zone offsets.
• Protect and evolve Prisma Browser's high-velocity shipping culture. Drive modern CI/CD release practices that sustain multiple release cycles per week, balancing rapid feature delivery with platform stability, performance, and rigorous security standards.
• Own strategic alignment with key stakeholders, representing Prisma Browser engineering across the broader NetSec/SASE platform to ensure unified platform architecture and joint operational workflows.
• Customer Engagement & Executive Advocacy. Serve as the primary engineering spokesperson in the region. Directly engage enterprise customers, field architecture teams, and executive partners during customer meetings, active deployments, and escalation reviews.
• Drive AI-savvy engineering practices across the organization, applying modern AI technologies and automation tools to optimize software development life cycles, codebase quality, and threat mitigation models.

Required Qualifications

• Progressive Engineering Leadership: Significant experience leading software engineering organizations, with a proven ability to manage, scale, and empower multi-team structures
• Strong background leading engineering teams within cybersecurity, with specific exposure to endpoint architecture, agent-based architectures, or browser-level security solutions.
• High-Velocity CI/CD Experience: Demonstrated success guiding engineering teams operating in continuous deployment environments (shipping releases weekly or daily vs. traditional monthly/quarterly schedules).
• Demonstrated success leading engineering sites and collaborating across international distributed teams, with explicit experience building operational alignment across significant time-zone offsets.
• Practical experience incorporating modern AI frameworks or AI-assisted development tools into software engineering organizations to drive developer productivity and security innovation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior leadership experience bridging both high-growth startup environments and large-scale enterprise matrix organizations.
• Intuitive understanding of modern threat landscapes and vulnerability analysis to inform pragmatic product architecture decisions under real-world conditions.
• Technical familiarity with integrating endpoint or browser security technologies into broader SASE, Zero Trust, and Cloud Security platforms.

Pay and benefits

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$275,400.00 - $378,000.00/yr

Our Commitment

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

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

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes