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Palo Alto Sr Principal Research Engineer WildFire 
United States, California 
802106240

18.02.2025

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

Your Career

As a member of the team, you will work with researchers on implementing different projects that detect and defend against various emerging threats. You will be a key person in transforming ideas into products which are part of the next generation security platform. The team is responsible for innovating new security techniques.

Your Impact

  • Lead efforts to identify and analyze cyber threats from a large volume of detected artifacts.
  • Conduct in-depth research on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, threat actors and attack vectors.
  • Publish research findings, contributing to the cybersecurity community.
  • Participate/lead in the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, architectural design, development, testing, deployment and operation support.
  • Write clean, testable, readable, scalable and maintainable Python / Golang code that scales and performs well for thousands of customers.

Your Experience

  • At least 8+ years industry experience with malware analysis & detection, reverse engineering, threat hunting, etc
  • Proficiency in at least one of the programming languages: Python, Golang, C
  • Experience publishing research findings, excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
  • Experience with public cloud development, e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure
  • Knowledge of ML/AI and experience in data driven approaches is a plus
  • Hands on and can-do attitude, willing to learn new technologies
  • Be comfortable working independently and efficiently
  • BS/MS/PhD in computer science/engineering, or equivalent experience or equivalent military 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 $182000 - $295000/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.