דרושים Research Director

• High growth: In just six years, we’ve reached milestones that take other companies a decade or more. We’ve doubled our employee count, tripled our customer count, and rapidly expanded our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

• Own and lead Orca’s core platform and infrastructure product group , including data ingestion, data processing pipelines, alerting, AI-driven capabilities, in-platform growth, and overall user experience.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 6 Product Managers and Designers , while also remaining hands-on with several high-priority product domains.
• Drive platform-wide strategy and execution , ensuring scalability, reliability, and seamless customer experiences across Orca’s security offerings.
• Shape Orca’s long-term platform vision , influencing the future of cloud security and strengthening Orca’s competitive edge.

• 6+ years of experience in product management roles, including 3+ years leading Product Managers in high-scale SaaS environments.
• Strong technical background with demonstrated ability to understand complex architectures and solve challenging platform-level problems.
• Proven experience in cybersecurity product leadership — a must.
• A hands-on, can-do approach, with the ability to dive deep when necessary while empowering your team to excel.
• Passion for building intuitive, scalable, and elegant user experiences—even in highly technical domains.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development and deployment
• Take part in integrating the newest features and technologies, automate workflows, and create user friendly tools and frameworks for researchers.
• Produce elegant, generic, modular and extendable code
• Actively influence the processes and methods for researchers, affecting their day to day life

Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise in Python and Python internals
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining a user facing application/API
• Experience with Git or other source controls
• Good communication skills
• Self-driven with the ability to work independently, take initiative, and drive processes end-to-end

Advantages

• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP specifically)
• Knowledge of the cyber field
• Experienced with a variety of database technologies (Mysql / RocksDB / Google BigQuery)

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Senior Technical Research Auditor for Cortex Research, you will be honing and communicating high-quality, groundbreaking cybersecurity and threat intelligence research for Palo Alto Networks XDR & XSIAM Cortex Research Department. This is a highly technical role, and a strong research/technical background is a key qualification. Your goal is to work closely with Cortex researchers and the Unit 42 publishing team to ensure our research is clearly communicated in well-produced research articles and other written, recorded and visual materials. You will also engage in communication with external vendors and industry partners. Constant collaboration with various research groups, Corporate Communications, Legal, and Content Marketing teams is essential to help raise the profile of our research and improve our brand visibility.

Your Impact

• Work with researchers to ensure high-quality, accurate, well-written pieces that are ready for publication through our Threat Research Center, social media and other properties.

• Assist researchers with understanding how to translate complex technical research into clear storytelling that resonates with media and other non-technical audiences.

• Review and fact-check the data and claims in our threat research publications.

• Weigh in on technical research topics, such as: threat intelligence, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat hunting, threat actor attribution, cloud and identity related attacks, endpoint security, and more.

• Make necessary corrections and/or coordinate with other teams to identify who can resolve outstanding issues in a piece.

• Maintain awareness of when additional notification and coordination is necessary in order to responsibly disclose our findings, including vulnerabilities.

• Work with the publishing team in our ongoing effort to improve our guidelines, processes and scheduling.

Your Experience

• Proven experience writing and/or reviewing cybersecurity research content, including topics, such as: malware, APT, vulnerabilities, incident response, penetration testing, cloud security, threat intelligence briefings.

• Deep familiarity with cybersecurity-related technical terms, and common frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework and demonstrate a good understanding of attack lifecycles.

• Familiarity with key concepts and terms in endpoint security, network security, identity and cloud security.

• Able to understand highly technical cybersecurity content and improve how it is communicated to a broad audience.

• Strong communicator with extraordinary writing, communication and editing skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Experience in online content production.

• Proven ability to manage communications and meet deadlines across complex, global stakeholder groups, with experience working in a multicultural environment and coordinating across different time zones.

• Native English speaker or English level equivalent to CEFR’s C2 level requirements.

Advantages

• Proven experience or relevant certifications in any of the following disciplines: penetration testing, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, malware analysis, SOC analysis, cloud security.

• Experience in technical writing or editing in a research publication environment (academic, nonprofit or corporate).

• Reasonable command of Python, SQL or other coding languages.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

In this role, you will lead Employee Relations for the Israel region. You will set the strategy for ER, in alignment with the wider local People team function and the Global ER strategy, and manage one ER professional also based in Israel. This role will be based in Tel Aviv, and will report to the global head of Employee Relations.

You will use your experience and knowledge of applicable policies, regulations, and industry best practices to establish and follow appropriate protocol for employee relations issues, HR compliance, and investigations. As a thought leader in this area of expertise, you will also have the opportunity to develop and deliver educational programs to create awareness and training and help create a workplace free from behavioral issues and distractions.

Your Impact

• Provide strategic guidance to leaders and PBPs on sensitive employee relations matters, including performance management, involuntary exits (including redundancies), interpersonal conflicts, and capability issues.
• Conduct investigations into complex or escalated employment matters. Partner with PBPs, Legal and other investigative parties as required to adhere to investigative best practices, reaching the optimal outcomes for our organization and employees.
• Drive organizational change initiatives in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring that communication is effective, risk is mitigated, and that leaders and employees are supported through the process.
• Lead and own HR compliance and policy for Israel.
• Use HR analytics and data to identify trends, diagnose issues and make data-driven recommendations to the leadership team and People team colleagues.
• With the support of the Global Head of ER, define and execute the ER strategy for Israel ensuring ER practices and processes support PANW’s organizational objectives and culture.
• Lead, and contribute to, EMEA or global ER-related projects as necessary.
• Act as an advocate for equitable and fair treatment; ensure our practices continue to align to our company’s core values: Disruption. Execution. Inclusion. Collaboration. Integrity.

Your Experience

• A minimum of 12 years of Employee Relations experience gained in either an ER or HRBP role, or equivalent experience as an employment lawyer practicing in Israel.
• Experience leading, managing and scaling teams.
• Extensive practical experience advising on employment law and regulations, compliance, and ER best practice, and the ability to pragmatically apply this knowledge in a commercial environment.
• Experience conducting investigations and advising on a wide range of sensitive and complex employee relations issues, including performance management, manager/employee conflicts or complaints, and behavioral/conduct issues.
• Demonstrated experience executing on change management programs and restructures, with the ability to balance the efficient project-management of complex processes with empathy and care.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong emotional intelligence, and ability to build trust, rapport and influence across all levels of the company. Able to confidently influence and articulate complex issues to a diverse range of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to organize and analyze data, and a passion for using data and insights to make a positive impact on the business.
• Capable of challenging the status quo and flexing solutions to changing demands.
• Track record of effectively coaching leaders to action in sensitive or ambiguous situations, and the ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with maturity, discretion and professionalism.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed and results oriented environment.
• Fluency in Hebrew and English is required.
• Preferences
• ​​Bachelor’s degree required; JD, MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• Experience of leading an ER team within a tech organization
• Project management experience

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Senior Technical Research Auditor for Cortex Research, you will be honing and communicating high-quality, groundbreaking cybersecurity and threat intelligence research for Palo Alto Networks XDR & XSIAM Cortex Research Department. This is a highly technical role, and a strong research/technical background is a key qualification. Your goal is to work closely with Cortex researchers and the Unit 42 publishing team to ensure our research is clearly communicated in well-produced research articles and other written, recorded and visual materials. You will also engage in communication with external vendors and industry partners. Constant collaboration with various research groups, Corporate Communications, Legal, and Content Marketing teams is essential to help raise the profile of our research and improve our brand visibility.

Your Impact

• Work with researchers to ensure high-quality, accurate, well-written pieces that are ready for publication through our Threat Research Center, social media and other properties.

• Assist researchers with understanding how to translate complex technical research into clear storytelling that resonates with media and other non-technical audiences.

• Review and fact-check the data and claims in our threat research publications.

• Weigh in on technical research topics, such as: threat intelligence, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat hunting, threat actor attribution, cloud and identity related attacks, endpoint security, and more.

• Make necessary corrections and/or coordinate with other teams to identify who can resolve outstanding issues in a piece.

• Maintain awareness of when additional notification and coordination is necessary in order to responsibly disclose our findings, including vulnerabilities.

• Work with the publishing team in our ongoing effort to improve our guidelines, processes and scheduling.

Your Experience

• Proven experience writing and/or reviewing cybersecurity research content, including topics, such as: malware, APT, vulnerabilities, incident response, penetration testing, cloud security, threat intelligence briefings.

• Deep familiarity with cybersecurity-related technical terms, and common frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework and demonstrate a good understanding of attack lifecycles.

• Familiarity with key concepts and terms in endpoint security, network security, identity and cloud security.

• Able to understand highly technical cybersecurity content and improve how it is communicated to a broad audience.

• Strong communicator with extraordinary writing, communication and editing skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Experience in online content production.

• Proven ability to manage communications and meet deadlines across complex, global stakeholder groups, with experience working in a multicultural environment and coordinating across different time zones.

• Native English speaker or English level equivalent to CEFR’s C2 level requirements.

Advantages

• Proven experience or relevant certifications in any of the following disciplines: penetration testing, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, malware analysis, SOC analysis, cloud security.

• Experience in technical writing or editing in a research publication environment (academic, nonprofit or corporate).

• Reasonable command of Python, SQL or other coding languages.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.