Security Researcher (DNS Security)
Santa Clara, CA, United States
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Palo Alto Networks
Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Workforce, Leverage Threat Intelligence & Security Consulting. Cybersecurity Services & Education for CISO’s, Head of Infrastructure, Network Security Engineers, Cloud...Company 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.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.
We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.
Job Description
Your Career
The DNS Security Research team is responsible for delivering high quality content to our products to prevent successful cyberattacks, with a special focus on DNS security, network security, privacy protection, etc. We design, build, and maintain various detection systems and data infrastructures to protect customers against constantly evolving threats and attacks.
Your Impact:
- Track and research emerging threats and innovate new ways to identify malicious indicators used by malware and attacks, including domains, URLs, IP addresses, sha256, email addresses, etc.;
- Design and build scalable and extensible prevention/detection systems;
- Leverage data-driven approaches, such as statistical analysis, machine learning, and other advanced techniques;
- Convert research results and discoveries into products, research papers, etc.
Qualifications
Your Experience:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related fields with security research experience; PhD in Cyber Security or Machine Learning is a plus.
- Creative thinker and team player. Have great passion and be highly self-motivated in data-driven security research;
- Expertise in DNS and DNS security;
- Good knowledge of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Deep Learning, and Boosting;
- Excellent programming skills in Python, Shell script, Go, or SQL;
- Understanding of core network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, etc.);
- Knowledge and experience with modern databases and big data tools, such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, BigQuery;
- Be comfortable working independently, efficiently;
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills;
- Experience with malware traffic analysis is a plus;
- Experience with graph database (e.g. Neo4j, Amazon Neptune), graph-based analysis is a plus;
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform is a plus;
- Proven success (past publication record, open source project contributions) is a big plus.
Additional Information
The Team
Our Security Services Team is responsible for building next-generation threat prevention and antivirus solutions and shipping high-quality content to our products to prevent successful cyberattacks. The areas include malware analysis, IoT security, Web security, network security, privacy protection.
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 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.
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 $140,100/yr to $226,600/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Tags: Antivirus Big Data Cloud Computer Science DNS Elasticsearch GCP Machine Learning Malware MongoDB MySQL Neo4j Network security Open Source PhD Privacy Python RabbitMQ Redis SQL TCP/IP
Perks/benefits: Career development Medical leave Salary bonus
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