Senior Staff Engineer Software (Cortex)

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

The Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team is expanding, and we’re looking for a Full Stack Sr. Software Engineer to join our team. This team is responsible for building unified vulnerability and exposure management experience within XSIAM. This experience involves visualizing, prioritizing and remediating the posture security problems (vulnerabilities, misconfigurations etc) in the customer’s environment.

Your Impact

• Design, build, and maintain the features for the unified vulnerability and exposure management experience

• Take part in architecture strategy sessions - design solutions that accommodate the requirements of the various groups across Cortex

• Collaborate with teams to solve problems, reduce technical debt, and evolve development practices

• Drive technical best practices and evangelize new technologies within the engineering org

• Collaborate with other engineers and ensure that your team delivers high-quality output

• Take ownership of projects, drive them to completion, and support them in production

• Be a champion of test driven development

• Build user interfaces with Angular

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 3+ years of experience as a professional software engineer writing full stack software with comparatively more frontend experience 

• Proficient in Angular

• Proficient in Python

• Experienced and opinionated about frontend development and API development

• Able to switch between research, design, prototype, and implementation

• Working knowledge of at least one of the major cloud platforms (eg GCP, AWS, or Azure), preferably GCP

• Experience with CI/CD process

• Strong problem solving skills
  
  Nice To Haves

• Experience with React

• Common understanding of CVEs or Software vulnerabilities 

• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and vulnerability methodologies

• Proficiency in Linux and Windows operating systems

• Demonstrates a basic understanding of how a variety of exploits work and shows skills in enumerating and selecting the correct exploit for a given system

• Experience with Jenkins or Gitlab Runners

• Experience with Grafana and Prometheus

• Experience with StackDriver for log based debugging 

• Experience working in vulnerability management domain

• Experience working with BigQuery

Additional Information

The Team

The Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team is on the rise, and we are excited to invite an experienced full-stack developer with a strong focus on frontend development to join our dynamic group. We are embarking on an innovative journe