Sr Staff Security Researcher (Web Security)

Your Career

The Web Security Research team is responsible for delivering high quality content to our products to prevent successful cyberattacks and protect our customers with a special focus on malicious URL detection DNS security network security and privacy protection. 

We are looking for a motivated and creative Sr Security Researcher to join our team to research design and develop innovative threat detection systems and infrastructure for protecting customers against constantly evolving online threats and attacks. 

Your Impact

• Track and research emerging online threats and innovate new automated ways to identify malicious indicators used by malicious websites and URLs
• Design develop test and release threat prevention and detection systems to protect enterprise customers around the globe 
• Leverage frontier technologies in ML and AI as well as other datadriven techniques 
• Convert research results and discoveries into realimpact innovative products
• Implement and maintain complex software pipelines and data infrastructures with challenging requirements on high quality and performance
• Work across teams to deliver productionimpact projects

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Creative thinker and team player with a passion for datadriven security research and building high quality complex systems as a part of an incredible research team
• Strong Web security background and expertise in detecting security threats over the Internet such as phishing fraud botnet spam
• Experience with malware traffic analysis signature mining sandboxing is a plus 
• Experience with crawling infrastructures and security scanners is a plus 
• Experience with email security is a plus
• Strong engineering skills and ability to fastly learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies
• Advanced programming skills in Python JavaScript/ Shell scripting
• Advanced programming skills in Golang is a plus
• Experience with developing REST APIs and microservices
• Knowledge and experience with modern databases and Big Data tools such as ELK stack MySQL MongoDB Redis Kafka RabbitMQ BigQuery Bigtable is a plus
• Knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as GCP AWS Azure is a plus
• Knowledge and experience in machine learning techniques workflows and algorithms such as kNN SVM Decision Trees Random Forest CNN and RNN
• Experience with implementing complex datadriven systems and ML pipelines is a plus
• Must have MS/PhD in Computer Science / Software Engineering (PhD in Computer Security or Privacy is preferred) or 2 years of relevant industry experience or equivalent military experience required
• Strong research communication and presentational skills
• Past work experience in earlystage fastgrowth startups is a plus
• Past experience on open source projects is a plus

Additional Information :

The Team

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 dont 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.

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 nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $136000 $219000/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

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship: Yes