Senior Security Engineer - Infrastructure & Tools

Palo Alto Networks; United States; On-site; USD 147,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to join the infrastructure engineering team. You will define and build core security infrastructure to be used across the company, aligning with risk posture, performance, and developer experiences.

You will need deep security infrastructure knowledge, strong system software skills, and collaboration with other engineers to ensure security acts as a guardrail rather than a bottleneck across projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security or infra-focused engineering roles with meaningful security ownership.
• The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery.
• A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Empathy for the problems faced by developers, and a passion for building tools and systems that address those problems.
• Built vulnerability management systems that actually drive risk down.
• Led security incident response efforts and postmortem improvements.
• Strong interest in how things work. Curiosity and persistence is key to building the understanding needed to apply.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and work with other engineering teams to operate security tools and programs across the organization, including access control & workflows, vulnerability management, and detection/response systems.
• Collaborate with other engineers and with the business to identify the highest priority needs of the organization, and maintain a roadmap to address those needs.
• Actively participate in design reviews, threat modeling, and incident analysis.
• Help teams make high-quality security decisions, especially in ambiguous situations.
• Set the bar for security, ownership, and quality across engineering.

Skills

Security ownership

Project ownership

Problem solving

Empathy for developers

Incident response

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Tools

Go

C++

Rust

Python

Security tooling

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to join the infrastructure engineering team. You will define and build core security infrastructure to be used across the company, aligning with risk posture, performance, and developer experiences.

You will need deep security infrastructure knowledge, strong system software skills, and collaboration with other engineers to ensure security acts as a guardrail rather than a bottleneck across projects.