Job Description

Company Description

At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:

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

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren't easy goals to accomplish - but we're not here for easy. We're here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We're changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we've rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.



Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is disrupting the Cyber Security industry! We are looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to join our Product Security team, which works with all Palo Alto Networks product engineering teams to provide assistance and guidance on how to secure our products. With your security skills, help identify and report security issues via SAST. You'll also collaborate with other team members to drive remediation of security issues, and drive continuous improvement of results. In this role you will provide technology leadership in development of security programs by helping to drive disruptive vision, technology planning and estimation. If you are a fast learner and passionate about Cyber Security, this is a great opportunity for you.

Your Impact

Static Application Security Testing

Take ownership of the SAST offering to product development teams

Work with security engineers and product development teams to provide accurate, actionable results

Build next gen appsec technologies with automation into complex engineering CI/CD pipelines

Build risk driven intelligent automation to optimize SAST, SCA, CVA, and DAST integrations with advanced tooling integration

Products/Tools Design & Development

Design and implement consumable software and services for internal and external customers -Ensure on-schedule delivery of a high-quality product that meets technical requirements

Solutions design for new services (in partnership with Architecture and SRE)

Build vs. Buy Research and Evaluation

Take ownership and/or lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project

Consulting & Support

Evangelize and lead the adoption of Secure SDLC and security best practices across the entire SDLC. You're someone that possesses strong knowledge of security from code to cloud and wants to help people apply it.

Implement programs to automate complex data analysis for high priority security missions

Build tools/reports to support urgent requests

Evaluate options and provide recommendations on scope and scale of effort required to develop solutions

This includes creating reference implementations and reusable templates that are used to make our products secure by default

Clearly communicate on the status of projects or other issues -Establish a working relationship with other groups across the organization to successfully implement business requirements while applying the latest available tools and technology

Qualifications

Your Experience

Experience explaining impact of identified security issues to technical and non-technical audiences

Experience guiding remediation of security issues with software engineers

Experience tuning and creating SAST queries based on identified vulnerabilities

Experience triaging SAST issues to determine validity and impact

Knowledge of SCA/CVA security tooling is a plus

8+ years hands-on experience in cybersecurity in general

5+ years of experience with hands on keyboard application security, pen testing, security benchmarks, and automation

3+ years experience with REST APIs, Automation, Integration using Python, Go or Java/C++

3+ years of software engineering full stack experience desired

Ability to quickly solve problems through automation

Experience in software security testing, methodologies, and frameworks

Experience with GCP or AWS

Experienced in variety of cloud and database technologies - Google BigQuery, GCS Postgres, Mysql, ElasticSearch

Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

Experience in designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and applications

Working knowledge of and experience with CI/CD tools - Jenkins, Bamboo, Gitlab is a plus

Basic knowledge of system administration with Windows and Linux is a plus

Experience with Infrastructure As Code(IaC), Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Chef is a plus

"Self-starter" attitude and ability to troubleshoot independently

Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both the business and technical sides of the business

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related area or equivalent experience

Additional Information

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we've rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

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Covid-19 Vaccination Information for Palo Alto Networks Jobs

• Vaccine requirements and disclosure obligations vary by country.
• Unless applicable law requires otherwise, you must be vaccinated for COVID or qualify for a reasonable accommodation if:

• The job requires accessing a company worksite
• The job requires in-person customer contact and the customer has implemented such requirements
• You choose to access a Palo Alto Networks worksite
• If you have questions about the vaccine requirements of this particular position based on your location or job requirements, please inquire with the recruiter.