Principal Data Engineer, Security Research, FedRamp (Xpanse)

Company Description

To comply with U.S. federal government requirements, U.S. citizenship is required for this position

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

We’re looking for a Data Engineer to join the Cyber Research team at Xpanse, the latest addition to Palo Alto Networks Cortex. 

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

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

Qualifications

Your Experience

Required

• 4+ years of experience as a professional Software Engineer or Data Engineer for a SaaS business
• Professional experience designing and implementing solutions for large-scale data storage and analysis, using tools such as Google BigQuery, ClickHouse, Google BigTable, Apache HBase, or ElasticSearch
• Experience developing and maintaining stream-processing pipelines using Apache Apache Beam or Apache Spark
• Familiarity with ETL management tools, such as Apache Airflow
• Experience in software development, including some level of proficiency in Python
• Excited to work closely with analysts to build a toolkit for discovering and tracking APT campaigns across the internet
• High-level understanding of computer networks, protocols, and how the Internet works

Nice to have

• Background or interest in threat intelligence and applied security
• Familiarity with datasets associated with cyber threat hunting
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services

Additional Information

The Team

Xpanse’s Cyber Research Engineering team is a cross-functional team that uses Xapnse’s unique datasets to deliver cybersecurity insights and help defend Fortune 500 companies and government networks.

Our Cyber Research Engineers work with datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes in unconventional ways. Our work is varied, exciting, and meaningful. You will rapidly prototype new capabilities to address specific customer needs, you will work to improve our Internet intelligence through new forms of data collection, and you will develop, maintain, and use our tools to perform threat hunting.

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, fa