Remote Principal Threat Hunter & Intelligence Lead

Palo Alto Networks; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 164,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Threat Intelligence Hunter to lead proactive, intelligence-driven hunting across multinational customer environments. You will analyze public and private threat intel, track adversary activity, and translate findings into actionable investigations and customer notifications.

The role requires 8+ years in threat hunting/CTI/DFIR, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), DFIR, or advanced security operations.
• Experience translating threat intelligence into hunting hypotheses, detection logic and high-impact notifications.
• Experience modeling incident data in intelligence platforms/graphs to map intrusions and campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive, intelligence-led hunting across customer environments.
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable hunting hypotheses, investigation workflows, and customer-facing findings.
• Collaborate with threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, MDR teams, and Unit 42 researchers.
• Mentor junior hunters and escalate major, high-impact security events to leadership.

Skills

Threat hunting

Cyber threat intel

DFIR

Security operations

Intelligence platforms

Tools

Vertex Synapse

GCP

AI tooling

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Threat Intelligence Hunter to lead proactive, intelligence-driven hunting across multinational customer environments. You will analyze public and private threat intel, track adversary activity, and translate findings into actionable investigations and customer notifications.

The role requires 8+ years in threat hunting/CTI/DFIR, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring peers.