Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer: AI-Driven Red Team

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted stock units

Annual bonus

Accommodations for disability

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer to lead advanced security assessments across cloud-native environments and large-scale infrastructure. You will drive AI-assisted testing, mentor peers, and influence secure design decisions across engineering teams.

You will collaborate with SRE and security teams, advance offensive testing capabilities, and report findings to executives to strengthen our defensive posture against evolving cyber threats.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with relevant experience in penetration testing or offensive security.
• Experience conducting comprehensive penetration tests across cloud-native applications and large-scale infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and lead red team operations including lateral movement and privilege escalation.
• Strong proficiency in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in cloud services and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience developing custom tooling or scripts to automate security testing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive penetration tests across cloud-native applications, large-scale infrastructure, and complex network architectures.
• Lead assumed-breach red team operations to test defensive controls.
• Integrate AI-assisted testing frameworks into penetration testing workflows.
• Provide security guidance to engineering teams during remediation and secure design.
• Translate findings into high-impact reports for technical and executive stakeholders.

Skills

Penetration testing

Cloud-native security

Red team operations

Vulnerability research

Scripting / tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer to lead advanced security assessments across cloud-native environments and large-scale infrastructure. You will drive AI-assisted testing, mentor peers, and influence secure design decisions across engineering teams.

You will collaborate with SRE and security teams, advance offensive testing capabilities, and report findings to executives to strengthen our defensive posture against evolving cyber threats.