Senior Staff Researcher

5 - 10 years

14 - 18 Lacs

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Cortex Cloud, a part of the Palo Alto Networks family, is at the forefront of protecting cloud applications. As cloud adoption rapidly expands, so do its threats. Our mission is to ensure every business can operate securely in the cloud. As a Senior Security Researcher at Cortex Cloud, you will be an integral part of our journey to identify, research, and develop security and compliance detection rules to safeguard customers from threats and misconfigurations in the cloud. Are you passionate about using cutting-edge technology to help protect the world against cyber threats? Do you live and breathe the cyber security world? Join our dynamic team focused on research, development, release, and maintenance of risk and incident detection rules to safeguard customers from threats and misconfigurations in the cloud. Lead and perform groundbreaking cyber security research while working side by side with top-notch engineering and product management teams.

Your Impact

  • Designing, developing, and maintaining detection rules to protect against attacks and ensure cloud security compliance.
  • Conducting research on emerging cloud services and potential misconfigurations from a security perspective.
  • Investigating cloud attack techniques, tactics, and identifying detection methods and mapping them to security frameworks and compliance standards.
  • Proposing and implementing security detection rules to enhance our defense mechanisms.
  • Actively contributing to ongoing process enhancements in security content development, automation, and deployment practices.
  • Engaging in public outreach forums to advocate for best practices and represent our company's commitment to excellence.
  • Bonus - Establishing industry thought leadership by publishing insightful blogs on security research.
Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Ideal - 5+ years of experience in the security compliance and threat research domain.
  • Must have - At least 2 years of hands-on experience in public cloud security and compliance (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Must have - Strong command-line skills and troubleshooting experience in Linux environments.
  • Highly desirable - Proficiency in Python programming and knowledge of GenAI/LLM based automations.
  • Highly desirable - Familiarity with Git version control, CI/CD pipelines, bug tracking tools, etc.
  • Highly desirable - Experience with BigQuery, SQL, JSON, REST APIs, Terraform, and similar technologies.

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