About the position
At Palo Alto Networks, we have built a firewall-as-a-platform that can process massive volumes of network data from hundreds of thousands of customer deployments and millions of users. We leverage data science and machine learning extensively to analyze the network traffic, to protect the users' data and network from malicious exploits and attacks, and to provide the most insightful knowledge for our customers' OT operations. Come work with the most talented data scientists, software developers and security researchers in one of the fastest growing areas of cyber security today! Be part of our amazing team of IoT device identification and security professionals unlocking the value of data to shape this relatively new landscape and make a real impact in securing the future of IoT. You will conduct research and participate in product development that helps build a platform to protect the ever growing number of Internet of Things, solve the ever growing challenges in cyber security, and drive technology evolution that creates positive impact over business and in the communities.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop software for IoT security engine in our cloud-based software component
- Discover new data and vulnerability insights by analyzing IoT network traffic data and performing IoT data mining
- Model and analyze network data, research network protocols and identify IoT devices and their associated risks using a network data set
- Utilize ML technologies or work with ML engineers to analyze data, detect threats, and discover insights
- Build tools and automation needed for IoT network data collection and analytics with the capacity to leverage new software techniques
- Support requests from the field teams and the customers to troubleshoot or answer questions
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience in Computer Networking and Network Security or work related fields
- Good Knowledge of Computer networking in general, Ethernet, TCP/IP in particular
- Good Knowledge in medical, industrial ICS or other IoT/OT is preferred
- Good programming skills in one or more programming languages: Python, Java, Go or C/C++. Solid in design patterns
- Prior experience with IoT devices is preferred
- Experience with TCPDUMP, Wireshark or similar tools desired
- Ability to design and implement large software projects from conceptualization to delivery
- Hands on builder experience, able to learn through building and reduce solution ambiguity through targeted prototype development and testing.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and interact with stakeholders from different backgrounds
- Experience leading projects
- BS/MS Computer Science or related engineering degree or equivalent military experience required
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with one or more security areas: DS/IPS, Application based firewall, Security vulnerability detection and monitoring, Client device signature, Malware attacks, Network device discovery tools
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and typical 'big data' processing pipeline
- Machine Learning Algorithms and common ML Data Pipeline
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity (SQL, Redshift, Mongo, Redis)
Benefits
- FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
- Mental and financial health resources
- Personalized learning opportunities
