Sr. Staff Engineer Software

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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 Your Career The Threat Research Engineering team specializes in providing tools that empower researchers across the company to work more efficiently. Our team bridges the gap between modern application development best practices and the world-class research teams within Palo Alto Networks. This role will challenge you to become a true force-multiplier, partnering with our researchers through designing and building threat-centric application workflows, process automations, and the creation of intelligent data architectures that enable the analysis and exploration of threat intelligence and telemetry data at scale Your Impact As an engineer on the Threat Research Engineering team, you will contribute directly to the tools and systems that empower our threat research community:

Requirements

• Strong understanding and usage of Python, SQL, and working knowledge of one or more non-relational databases such as ElasticSearch, Cassandra, BigQuery, etc.
• Strong background in developing JS based frontends, preferably in React
• Experience developing container based applications using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated full stack programming capability and desire to mature an idea or feature from pseudo-code to a minimum viable product
• Creation of, and integration with REST APIs. Experience with Flask, FastAPI or other Python frameworks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Google Cloud Spanner and Google Cloud Storage is a plus
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP is a plus
• Background or interest in threat intelligence and applied security is a plus

Responsibilities

• Implement REST APIs and workflows using Python: You will integrate with diverse data stores (e.g., SQL, Spanner, BigQuery), systems that manage petabytes of critical threat data.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of intuitive web-based applications using React: You will assist in building the user interfaces that help researchers visualize and analyze complex threat intelligence.
• Team Collaboration: Actively partner with other development teams and stakeholders to understand technical specifications and ensure smooth integration of systems and feature dependencies.
• Deployment and DevOps: Participate in our release cycles and use continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees