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Your Career
These days, the threat landscape is fluid and always changing. Cyber bad-actors are constantly finding new and diabolically creative ways to get to your data and there’s just no telling what door they’ll knock on next. As a Principal Product Security Researcher, you will be helping Palo Alto Networks in a high visibility role to stay ahead of the curve in addressing these latest threats, overseeing vulnerability response and remediation across all of Palo Alto Networks offerings.
Your Impact
- Discover new security vulnerabilities in our products and cloud offerings by bug hunting and performing security research
- Perform root-cause analysis of product vulnerabilities to ensure complete vulnerability remediation - working closely with our product teams to develop and review solutions
- Serve as a product security subject-matter expert when collaborating with stakeholders across the company and beyond including executives, engineering, infosec, privacy, legal, support, sales, customers, security researchers, and industry partners
- Work with a growth mindset and learn about the latest trends in cybersecurity
Your Experience
- Expert of secure programming, system security concepts, offensive and defensive security techniques
- Strong familiarity with Linux, operating system concepts, networking, and cloud computing
- Experience writing SAST rules (e.g. Semgrep), fuzzing/instrumenting complex applications (e.g. libFuzzer, AFL, Frida), and other program analysis methods
- Understanding of web/application security threats and defenses (code injection, XSS, etc.,)
- Familiarity with OWASP guidelines - Participation in Capture the Flag (CTF) events, a local OWASP chapter, or similar security-focused communities is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- An existing vulnerability research disclosure example, public blog entry on a technical issue, comment on a mailing list or open-source issue, or other technical comments on social media
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to work independently
- Ability to collaborate across functional teams as well as external partners, security researchers, and other security teams
- Experience in a red/blue/purple team would be a plus
Education
- BS or MS Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, related to computer security, application security, information security, network security, or cryptography 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 $163000 - $263900/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.
