Senior Software Engineer - Security Research

Your Career

You will be part of the team that develops the Intrusion Prevention System to power the Palo Alto Network’s next generation firewall. The content team is responsible for decoding network protocols, identifying applications and detecting threats on enterprise customers’ networks, providing common service to support a variety of network security services.

As a member of the content team, you have the opportunity to work on our IPS content engine and other advanced threat prevention products, and collaborate with different intelligent teams on various advanced cybersecurity features.

Your Impact

• Research protocol RFC and related application implementation
• Research common file types for file identification, blocking, DLP, etc.
• Research and provide defense mechanisms against popular protocol/firewall evasions
• Develop protocol and file type decoders, and integrate the detection solutions into the IPS engine of the Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall
• Build common services to support various network security services
• Develop internal tools to monitor and support the cyber security products
• Cross-team collaboration, discover and integrate advanced cybersecurity features to inline product solutions

Requirements

Your Experience

• Strong programming and debugging skills, C/C++ or go experience is preferred
• Excellent understanding of common networking protocols such as HTTP, SSL, SMTP, FTP, Websocket, GRPC, etc.
• Experience in analyzing network traffic using tools like Wireshark, Fiddler, tcpdump etc.
• Familiar with Linux/Unix development environment
• Team player, and good communication skills to work with cross-functional groups
• Knowledge and experience of next generation firewall and cyber security services is a plus
• Experience with research of GenAI applications is a plus
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required