Principal Vulnerability Management Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks , we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Principal Vulnerability Management Engineer to join the Cortex DevSecOps group and bolster our vulnerability management practices. This role focuses on securing our immense cloud and on-prem deployments by managing vulnerabilities across all infrastructure and applications, and overseeing security improvements to current processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the main point of contact for product and system vulnerability management.
• Participate in meetings with stakeholders to provide balanced insights on security implications.
• Act as a bridge between security, development, and operations teams to integrate security best practices into the development lifecycle.
• Work in full coordination with multiple product engineering and DevOps teams to produce highly secure features.
• Handle, prioritize, and effectively bring security vulnerabilities to resolution for multiple products.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevSecOps, Vulnerability Management, or Product Security Engineering.
• Experience establishing vulnerability management processes to make data-driven decisions.
• Experience in triaging vulnerabilities and providing security remediation recommendations.
• Experience helping engineering teams focus on high-value security issues and avoid toil on non-security issues.
• Experience working with corporate compliance functions.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work and coordinate between multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with FedRAMP processes and procedures.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

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.

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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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.