Palo Alto Sr Staff Engineer Software Web Security 

United States, California 

128846466

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

Your Impact

• Design, develop, test and release prevention and detection systems against modern Web attacks to protect enterprise customers around the globe

• Research and construct new automated and ML/AI powered solutions to identify malicious indicators used by malicious websites and URLs

• Leverage frontier technologies in ML and AI, as well as other data-driven techniques

• Implement and maintain complex software pipelines and data infrastructure with challenging requirements for high quality and performance

• Work closely with threat researchers and other teams to gather requirements, design architecture and write design documents

• Work closely with QA and infrastructure teams to deliver high quality products

• Improve product development and release processes

• Demonstrate good software development practices and coach the team in improving coding standards

Your Experience

• Fullstack engineer who can learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies to implement novel end-to-end solutions

• Creative thinker and team player with a passion for building high quality, complex systems as a part of an incredible research team

• Passion for Web Security and experience with cyber security fundamentals are required

• Basic knowledge in machine learning and experience with applying ML or implementing ML pipelines are required

• Experience with malicious URL detection and malware traffic analysis is a plus

• Experience with crawling infrastructures and security scanners is a plus

• Experience with web browser security development and browser extensions is a plus

• Strong engineering skills and experience with designing software architecture

• Advanced programming skills in Python, JavaScript, shell scripting

• Advanced programming skills in Golang is a plus

• Knowledge and experience with modern databases and big data tools (such as ELK stack, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, etc.)

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms, such as GCP, AWS, Azure

• Advanced experience with GCP technologies (GKE, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc) is a plus

• Experience with developing REST APIs and microservices

• Knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with unit testing and regression testing, delivering a high-quality code

• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and source control best practices

• Familiar with application security best practices

• Strong organizational, communication and presentational skills

• Past work experience in early-stage, fast-growth startups is a plus

• Past experience on open source projects is a plus

• Must have 3+ years software engineering experience

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 $126000/YR - $204500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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