Sr Principal Product Security Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

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

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

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.  

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few! 

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision. 

Job Description

Your Career 

As the Sr Principal Product Security Engineer on the Infosec Product Security team, you will be responsible for building security into all Palo Alto Networks products end-to-end. You’ll have the opportunity to work as a key member in a deep and savvy security team and lead the company's product security initiatives end-to-end. Furthermore, you will be technically hands-on, lead security engineering and innovations, where you will be expected to directly communicate with cross-functional teams in Product Management, Development, and DevOps/SRE to drive security throughout the entire product. 

Your Impact 

• Build next gen Appsec technologies with automation into complex engineering CI/CD pipelines
• Protect application security throughout the life-cycle in the cloud  (GCP & AWS) and on the premise
• Build risk driven intelligent automation to optimize SAST, SCA, OSS, DAST, Infra as Code (IaC), RASP integrations with advanced tooling integration
• Evangelize and lead the adoption of SDLC and security best practices across the entire application lifecycle - You’re someone that possesses strong knowledge of security from infrastructure through application and wants to help people apply it.
• Define and implement security tooling with the goal of improving coverage and time to action
• Participate in the design and implementation of secure software development processes, including secure coding practices, security testing, and vulnerability management
• Improve security reporting, including coordinating vulnerability management, penetration testing, and infrastructure compliance

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity in general, with 4+ years experiences in application security, pen test, security benchmarks, and automation
• Security tooling and best practices, such as pre-commit/pre-receive hooks, dependency scanning, SAST, IAST, OSS, DAST, RASP, and vulnerability management, etc.
• Experienced on Security tools benchmarking and fine tuning
• Perform code reviews, static code analysis, and security testing to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in our software products
• Familiarity with industry security standards and best practices (e.g., OWASP, NIST, ISO)
• Integration, design, and architecture of AWS and/or GCP services into IAM platforms
• Microservice architecture expertise and best practices in securing APIs across multi-cloud environments
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both the business and technical sides of the business

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

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