Sr. Staff Engineer (Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform)

The Cortex Vulnerability Experience Platform team is expanding, and we're looking for an experienced 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

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience as a professional software engineer writing software
• Strong Proficiency in Python
• Experienced and opinionated about Software development and best practices across backend and frontend
• 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
• Technical team leadership

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Go, Angular and 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

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The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (https://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

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.