Senior Staff Researcher
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Job Summary
Your Career
Cortex Cloud a part of the Palo Alto Networks family is at the forefront of protecting cloud applications. As cloud adoption rapidly expands so do its threats. Our mission is to ensure every business can operate securely in the cloud. As a Senior Security Researcher at Cortex Cloud you will be an integral part of our journey to identify research and develop security and compliance detection rules to safeguard customers from threats and misconfigurations in the cloud.
Are you passionate about using cutting-edge technology to help protect the world against cyber threats Do you live and breathe the cyber security world Join our dynamic team focused on research development release and maintenance of risk and incident detection rules to safeguard customers from threats and misconfigurations in the cloud. Lead and perform groundbreaking cyber security research while working side by side with top-notch engineering and product management teams.
Your Impact
- Designing developing and maintaining detection rules to protect against attacks and ensure cloud security compliance.
- Conducting research on emerging cloud services and potential misconfigurations from a security perspective.
- Investigating cloud attack techniques tactics and identifying detection methods and mapping them to security frameworks and compliance standards.
- Proposing and implementing security detection rules to enhance our defense mechanisms.
- Actively contributing to ongoing process enhancements in security content development automation and deployment practices.
- Engaging in public outreach forums to advocate for best practices and represent our companys commitment to excellence.
- Bonus - Establishing industry thought leadership by publishing insightful blogs on security research.
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- Ideal - 5 years of experience in the security compliance and threat research domain.
- Must have - At least 2 years of hands-on experience in public cloud security and compliance (AWS GCP or Azure).
- Must have - Strong command-line skills and troubleshooting experience in Linux environments.
- Highly desirable - Proficiency in Python programming and knowledge of GenAI/LLM based automations.
- Highly desirable - Familiarity with Git version control CI/CD pipelines bug tracking tools etc.
- Highly desirable - Experience with BigQuery SQL JSON REST APIs Terraform and similar technologies.
Additional Information :
The Team
Youll be working in a top-tier cybersecurity company and collaborating with some of the brightest minds in technology. Our team is at the core of our products and 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.
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 No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
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- Experience Administering Injections
- Research Experience
- Research & Development
- Assembly
- Semantic Web
- Vulnerability Research
About Company
Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in hi ... View more
