Senior Staff Security Researcher (Cortex Cloud) @ Palo Alto Networks

Your Impact

• Designing, developing, and maintaining detection rules to protect against attacks and ensure cloud security compliance.
• Conducting research on emerging cloud services and potential misconfigurations from a security perspective.
• Investigating cloud attack techniques, tactics, and identifying detection methods and mapping them to security frameworks and compliance standards.
• Proposing and implementing security detection rules to enhance our defense mechanisms.
• Actively contributing to ongoing process enhancements in security content development, automation, and deployment practices.
• Engaging in public outreach forums to advocate for best practices and represent our company''s commitment to excellence.
• Bonus - Establishing industry thought leadership by publishing insightful blogs on security research.

Your Experience

• Ideal - 4+ years of experience in the security compliance and threat research domain.
• Must have - At least 2 years of hands-on experience in public cloud security and compliance (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Must have - Strong command-line skills and troubleshooting experience in Linux environments.
• Highly desirable - Proficiency in Python programming and knowledge of GenAI/LLM based automations.
• Highly desirable - Familiarity with Git version control, CI/CD pipelines, bug tracking tools, etc.
• Highly desirable - Experience with BigQuery, SQL, JSON, REST APIs, Terraform, and similar technologies.