Sr Staff Research Engineer
Palo Alto Networks20 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead deep-dive security research into SaaS applications, API architectures, cloud environments, attack vectors, threat behaviors, and evasive adversary tactics.
- Design next-generation inline inspection algorithms and security controls for enterprise cloud data protection and threat prevention.
- Conduct protocol and traffic analysis to develop network security countermeasures against targeted attacks.
- Architect scalable automated frameworks for real-time traffic ingestion, payload decoding, telemetry processing, and analysis.
- Develop research tools, automated pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows to improve the security research lifecycle.
- Translate research discoveries and threat intelligence into production-grade protections across the Strata, Prisma, and Cortex portfolios.
- Collaborate with engineering and research leaders on cross-functional security initiatives and platform integrations.
- Mentor junior and mid-level researchers and serve as a subject matter expert to technical and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- 4–9 years of dedicated hands-on experience in security research, network security, and threat analysis.
- Deep expertise in TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, DNS, web APIs, and modern SaaS infrastructure.
- Mastery of packet-level inspection and traffic-analysis tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, OWASP ZAP, and Burp Suite.
- Advanced proficiency in Python, Go, or JavaScript for production research tooling and automation pipelines.
- Experience architecting scalable data processing, ingestion, and automation systems.
- Demonstrated success leading high-impact security research programs from inception through deployment.
- Expertise in emerging cyber threats, vulnerability research, and DLP/CASB techniques.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, written communication, and technical documentation or presentation abilities.
- Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and securing enterprise infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
- Preferred: practical experience applying machine learning, deep neural networks, or multi-agent systems to cybersecurity and threat detection.
- Preferred: experience integrating LLMs, generative AI tools, and automated coding assistants into workflow automation and log analysis.
- Preferred: foundational knowledge of modern web application frameworks and front-end architectures.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Palo Alto Networks provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- Equal opportunity employment and confidential handling of applicant information are provided.
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About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.