Sr Staff Engineer Software

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks ®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters. Job Summary

The Unit 42 Engineering team specializes in providing tools enabling threat researchers and incident response consultants to work more efficiently across the vast amounts of data Palo Alto Networks has at its disposal. Our experts bridge the gap between application development using modern best practices/technology and the world-class research teams within Unit 42. This role will challenge you to become a true force-multiplier, assisting the security research team through designing and building threat centric application workflows, process automations, and the creation of intelligent data architectures for threat intelligence and telemetry collection at scale.

Key Responsibilities

- Assist in the development and implementation of features and integrations to support threat data collection, analysis, and countermeasure creation.

- Collaborate with the team to implement REST APIs and workflows, learning about integration with various data sources such as SQL, NoSQL, BigQuery, and document stores.

- Contribute to the development and maintenance of frameworks that support threat researchers, gaining experience with tooling and automation to improve efficiency.

- Work with senior team members to understand technical dependencies, document technical specifications, and support integration with existing systems.

- Participate in the deployment process, gaining hands-on experience with modern tools such as Git, CI/CD (Gitlab CI, Docker, Airflow, Kubernetes), and containerization.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

- In depth knowledge of Modern AI tools and techniques

- Experience building AI based Agents using frontier models such as Gemini, Claude, etc.

- Foundational knowledge of Python and SQL, with an eagerness to learn and work with various database technologies, including non-relational databases like Elasticsearch, Cassandra, BigQuery, or similar.

- Familiarity with containerization concepts, ideally with some exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

- Solid programming skills, with the ability to contribute to the development and implementation of features under guidance.

- Understanding of REST APIs and how to integrate with them.

- Basic understanding of queuing technologies such as RabbitMQ or Pub/Sub, and an interest in learning to build solutions using these technologies.

- Good written and verbal communication skills, with a willingness to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as React is a plus.

- Exposure to cloud environments like AWS or GCP is desirable.

- Interest in threat intelligence and applied security is beneficial, but not required.

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