Staff Red Team 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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with personalization and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office with some flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

Our Information Security organization is seeking a creative Staff Red Team Engineer with a penchant for critical analysis to join our Offensive Security team. The Red Team’s objective is to proactively identify and mitigate risk to improve the enterprise security posture. In this role, you will participate in Red Team engagements that will force you to think outside the box to identify weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations that real-world threat actors may try to leverage.You will be required to develop tooling and build infrastructure to execute tactics, techniques, and procedures which can be used to evade security products, in support of covert operations.

Your Impact

The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment where energy, drive, and a collaborative approach are key to success. In this role, you will:

• Develop payloads and attack tools which bypass security controls for use in covert operations
• Execute Red Team operations to highlight gaps impacting enterprise security posture and readiness
• Simulate real-world attacks that are relevant to the business
• Deliver detailed reports of technical findings to stakeholders and assist with the development of mitigation plans
• Deliver executive technical outbriefs to leadership across the organization
• Assist with security investigations, root-cause analysis and corrective measures as required

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Experience with developing custom tools and payloads which bypass defensive products, and remain undetected in a mature network environment
• Malware development experience across languages and platforms
• Must have the ability to perform targeted attacks with or without the use of automated tools
• Expertise in adversarial TTPs
• Experience performing adversarial simulation
• Experience in conducting surreptitious on-premise and cloud based attacks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
• Must be well organized and able to leverage best practices, able to thrive in fast-paced environment, and, most importantly, have the ability to approach problems with an innovative, can-do attitude

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

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers.  They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work. 

Think about it:  Driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined by the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. 

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge