Job 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

Our Information Security organization is seeking a creative Senior 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 

• 6+ years cyber security experience with minimum 2-4 years experience leading covert end-to-end Red Team engagements

  Experience crafting social engineering campaigns and establishing initial access in a mature environment with a complex technology stack

  Experience developing payloads across languages and platforms while evading endpoint and network security products

  Experience with various command and control frameworks, across a variety of platforms and environments

  Must have the ability to perform targeted attacks with or without the use of automated tools

  Expertise in executing a wide array of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures

  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

  Certifications like OSCP/OSCE, CRTP, CRTO/CRTL are nice to have

  Examples of Public Speaking, Community contributions, blogs, research, open source tool, bug bounties are highly desirable

Additional Information

The Team

Join a Red Team specializing in offensive security within a high-tech cybersecurity company. You'll collaborate with top tech experts, work alongside global teams at the forefront of defending against cyber threats. Our shared mission unites us, but it's the profound impact of that mission that drives us to safeguard our digital way of life. Embrace the challenge of red teaming and experience the excitement of closing security gaps that threaten our privacy.

Compensation Disclosure

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $146000 - $237500YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found  here .

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Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Job Tags

Full time, Casual work,

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