Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Your Career

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer Developer to join the Cyber Research Engineering team at Cortex.

Cyber Research Engineering is a cross-functional team composed of people with backgrounds at the nexus of software engineering, data analysis, threat hunt, and national security. We're responsible for performing rapid prototyping and special projects using unique datasets to deliver cybersecurity insights for government, military, and commercial customers. We have several key responsibilities:

Operations - We collect data, perform specialized scanning, and provide provides advanced vulnerability testing

Analytics - We analyze threat intelligence, performs APT Threat Hunting, and conduct research projects tailored to the special needs public sector customers

Software Development - We builds tools for technical users, create prototypes for unique public sector use cases, and maintain/add features to our established cyber intelligence products

The work of the Cyber Research Engineering team is varied, exciting, and meaningful. We leverage endpoint and boundary devices, network traffic, internet scanning, malware sandboxes and many other datasets ranging in size from terabytes to petabytes. We encourage engineers and researchers to use these datasets in unconventional ways to produce unparalleled cybersecurity products and insights about computer networks that allow customers to better hunt those individuals who try to abuse those networks.

Your Impact

We're looking for a data engineer to join the Cyber Research team at Xpanse, the latest addition to Palo Alto Networks Cortex. At Xpanse, you will:

Help bring a new threat intelligence product to market

Design and implement methods to store, query, and analyze datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes in unconventional ways to produce unparalleled cybersecurity insights

Develop novel techniques and approaches for understanding the Internet and characterizing data for insights relevant to cyber threat intelligence

Empower threat intelligence analysts at Palo Alto and its customers to counter bad actors across the internet