Senior Staff Researcher(Cortex Cloud)
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Job Summary
Job Summary
As a Senior Staff Security Researcher for Cortex Cloud you will be integral to protecting cloud applications from expanding threats. You will identify research and develop security and compliance detection rules to safeguard customers from misconfigurations. This role involves leading groundbreaking cybersecurity research and collaborating with top-tier engineering and product teams to ensure every business can operate securely in the cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain detection rules to protect against attacks and ensure cloud security compliance.
- Conduct research on emerging cloud services and identify potential security misconfigurations.
- Investigate cloud attack techniques and tactics mapping detection methods to security frameworks and compliance standards.
- Propose and implement innovative security detection rules to enhance our defense mechanisms.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to simplify and improve security operations outcomes.
- Actively contribute to process enhancements in security content development automation and deployment practices.
- Engage in public forums and publish research to establish industry thought leadership and advocate for security best practices.
Qualifications :
Required Qualifications
- 4 years of experience in the security compliance and threat research domain.
- Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in public cloud security and compliance (AWS GCP or Azure).
- Strong command-line skills and troubleshooting experience in Linux environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Python programming and knowledge of GenAI/LLM based automations.
- Familiarity with Git version control CI/CD pipelines and bug tracking tools.
- Experience with BigQuery SQL JSON REST APIs and Terraform.
Additional Information :
The Team
Cortex Platform - Cortex is the industrys only open and integrated AI-based continuous security platform. Cortex is a significant evolution of the Application Framework designed to simplify security operations and considerably improve outcomes. Deployed on a global scalable public cloud platform Cortex allows security operations teams to speed the analysis of massive data sets.
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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- Machine Learning
- AI
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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
