Staff Front-End Engineer - Public Sector (Cortex)

Company: Palo Alto Networks
Location: Washington
Posted on: November 23, 2021

Job Description:

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

We're looking for a front-end engineer to join the public sector Cyber Research team at Cortex, the team automating the SOC.

Our data collections architecture yields the best and most detailed global view into the device layer of the public Internet. Cyber Research Engineers use these datasets (ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes) in unconventional ways to deliver critical cybersecurity insights that help protect some of the worlds largest networks.

Cyber Research work here is varied, exciting, and meaningful. We rapidly prototype new capabilities, we improve our Internet intelligence through unique forms of data collection, and we develop, maintain, and use our own tools to perform threat hunting. We are consistently shown the impact of our work and are proud to be a part of our nation's cyber defense.

Your Impact

• Help bring a new threat intelligence product to market
• Design and build web-based analysis workflows using React and REST APIs (Python)
• Develop novel techniques and approaches for understanding the Internet and characterizing data for insights relevant to cyber threat intelligence
• Empower threat intelligence analysts at Palo Alto and its customers to counter bad actors across the internet
  Qualifications
  
  Your Experience
  
  • Eligibility for a Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret /SI level Security Clearance is required
  • 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business
  • Experience designing and implementing user interfaces for data-intensive applications
  • Proficient in Javascript and/or Typescript
  • Proficient in frontend web frameworks, particularly React
  • Excited to work closely with analysts to build a toolkit for discovering and tracking APT campaigns across the internet
  • Prefer to ship features early and often. Experience with frontend testing methodology, CI infrastructure, and system observability for frontend projects
    Additional Information
    
    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. To learn more about our dedication to inclusion and innovation, visit our Life at Palo Alto Networks page and our diversity website.
    
    Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work 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.
    
    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.
    
    Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
    
    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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