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Principal Researcher

2 months ago


Santa Clara, United States Palo Alto Networks Full time
Job Description

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, we have built a firewall-as-a-platform that can process massive volumes of network data from thousands of customer deployments and millions of users. We leverage data science and machine learning extensively to analyze the network traffic, to protect the users' data and network from malicious exploits and attacks, to provide the most insightful knowledge for our customers' OT operations. You will have the chance to work with a group of most talented data scientists, software developers and security researchers, and be part of an amazing team that helps unlock the value of data. You will conduct security research that helps build a product to protect the ever growing number of Internet of Things, solve the ever growing challenges in cyber security, and drive technology evolution that creates positive impact over business and in the communities. 

Your Impact

  • Design and develop software components to provide IoT security content needed by customer facing features
  • Provide domain expertise and input to product management team to provide best security content and design new features to best serve our customers
  • Discover vulnerabilities in software and protocols that could compromise millions of IoT devices
  • File new CVEs and publish research findings
  • Build threat hunting tools and framework to automate data collection and discovery of zero day attacks, new vulnerabilities, with the capacity to leverage new software techniques
  • Support requests from the field teams and the customers in response to their security incidents, new trending threats or malware campaigns, forensics offered by the IoT security platform, and generate customized reports
  • Support marketing and product management teams in generating IoT security trends, statistics and reports

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience required, MS degree or above preferred.
  • 10+ years industry experience as a security researcher or research scientist

  • One or more of the following

    • Domain expertise in network based vulnerability research, pentest, threat hunting, threat modeling and reverse engineering

    • Domain expertise in DPI, network data analytics, and enterprise networking system

    • Working experience with OS, RTOS, protocol or software based vulnerability research

    • Credited CVEs or publications on security research is a major plus

  • Proficiency in Python is a must.  Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages like Java, Go or C/C++ is preferred

  • Solid interpersonal communication with excellent writing skills

  • A team first player who understands the value of collaboration

 



Additional Information

The Team

We are on a mission to build the industry's best Security large language model.

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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.

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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 $144,200/yr to $233,200/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.  

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.