Staff Software Engineer (Infosec)

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!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

As the Staff Software Engineer on the Infosec Product Security team, you will be responsible for building security into all Palo Alto Networks products end-to-end. You’ll have the opportunity to work as a key member in a deep and savvy security team and lead the company's product security initiatives end-to-end. Furthermore, you will be technically hands-on, lead security engineering and innovations, where you will be expected to directly communicate with cross-functional teams in Product Management, Development, and DevOps/SRE to drive security throughout the entire product.

Your Impact

• Build next gen Appsec technologies with automation into complex engineering CI/CD pipelines

• Protect application security throughout the life-cycle in the cloud (GCP & AWS) and on the premise

• Build risk driven intelligent automation to optimize SAST, SCA, OSS, DAST, Infra as Code (IaC), RASP integrations with advanced tooling integration

• Evangelize and lead the adoption of SDLC and security best practices across the entire application lifecycle - You’re someone that possesses strong knowledge of security from infrastructure through application and wants to help people apply it.

• Contribute to the security assessment and mitigation strategies for AI/ML models and applications. Stay informed about emerging threats and vulnerabilities related to AI security.

• Define and implement security tooling with the goal of improving coverage and time to action.

• Participate in the design and implementation of secure software development processes, including secure coding practices, security testing, and vulnerability management.

• Improve security reporting, including coordinating vulnerability management, penetration testing, and infrastructure compliance

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 and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon!

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 1+ years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity in general, with 2+ years experiences in application security, pen test, security benchmarks, and automation

• Security tooling and best practices, such as pre-commit/pre-receive hooks, dependency scanning, SAST, IAST, OSS, DAST, RASP, and vulnerability management, etc.

• Experienced on Security tools benchmarking and fine tuning.

• Basic understanding of AI/ML security concepts, including adversarial attacks, model poisoning, and data privacy. Familiarity with tools or frameworks for AI security testing and vulnerability scanning is a plus.

• Perform code reviews, static code analysis, and security testing to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in our software products.

• Familiarity with industry security standards and best practices (e.g., OWASP, NIST, ISO).

• Integration, design, and architecture of AWS and/or GCP services into IAM platforms

• Microservice architecture expertise and best practices in securing APIs across multi-cloud environments

• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both the business and technical sides of the business

• 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

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/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 ( .

$151,500.00 - $245,025.00/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.

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 View email address on click.appcast.io .

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.