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.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.
We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.
Your Career
We’re looking for a Principal Security Research Engineer to join Xpanse’s policy and payload generation team.
Xpanse finds risks online to help protect the world’s largest organizations from malicious software and hackers. Our Internet intelligence platform collects petabytes of Internet data, leverages artificial intelligence to discover “unknown unknown” risks for customers, and delivers those insights via a SaaS web application.
In this role, you will be a key member of a team that proactively sources policies and payloads from newly discovered CVEs and responds to Xpanse customer requests. You will generate payloads for our scanning infrastructure and new policies which encode risky device configurations as code that is run over observations from our global scanning data. Your work will help turn trillions of Internet data points into valuable cybersecurity insights.
Your Impact
Research and develop fingerprints that can help Xpanse identify and structure more and more types of services running on the global Internet.
Contribute to Xpanse zero day response by implementing the necessary payloads and policies to detect presence of critical CVEs while effectively communicating with the Xpanse team, across the Cortex business unit, and across Palo Alto Networks.
Proactively add policies and payloads to reduce backlog of customer-requests while minimizing false positives & false negatives.
Research emerging vulnerability threats on the global Internet and contribute to Cortex Research blogs/publications.
Mentor researchers and continuously improve policy and payload team’s best practices.
Stay apprised of critical business needs and help us continue to scale.
7+ years of experience in security research/systems security/network security or a similar field
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or other technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience)
Understanding of common network security vulnerabilities, CVSS scoring and exploit techniques
Experience with protocol analysis and in-depth knowledge of common protocols such as TLS, HTTP, SSH, SMB, SMTP
Experience using network analysis tools like tcpdump and Wireshark
Experience designing and building automation frameworks
Demonstrably strong programming skills in Java
Ability to concisely communicate complex subject matter to technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to work independently as a researcher as well as part of larger cross-functional teams
Prior experience performing open-ended security research and showcasing externally via blogs and publications is a plus
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. To learn more about our dedication to inclusion and innovation, visit our Life at Palo Alto Networks page and our diversity website .
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.
Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at **************@paloaltonetworks.com.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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