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Principal Linux Security Researcher (Cortex)

Palo Alto Networks

Your Career

We are looking for a Principal Linux Security Researcher for our Tel Aviv R&D center, to work on cortex-xdr for linux, which provides runtime protection to servers and cloud workloads.
You will be part of a team that is in charge of researching, developing and improving Anti-Exploit capabilities, Anti-malware capabilities. The position includes researching OS internals, exploits, malware, delving into cloud security, and finding ways to mitigate new attack vectors.


Your Impact

  • Research, develop, and improve anti-exploitation mitigations and anti-malware modules - ranging from low-level mitigations up to tackling application-level security vulnerabilities

  • Work on the design, evaluation, and implementation of new security technologies

  • Research Linux OS internals, kernel, application codebases, vulnerabilities and exploits (both for internal usage and for PR)

  • Analyze customer issues to help with detecting and preventing malicious activities in our customers networks


Your Experience

  • In-depth knowledge of some operating system internals is a must - Knowledge of Linux is an advantage

  • Development experience in C/C++/Rust is a must, 2 years at least

  • Experience in reverse engineering - both static and dynamic, is a must (x86/64 architectures), 3 years at least

  • Development knowledge in some scripting languages is a must - Experience with Python is an advantage

  • Exploitation experience is an advantage (either application-level security or memory corruption)

  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud workloads is an advantage

  • Ability to work independently and as a part of a team

  • Strong attention to detail

  • Ability to take initiative

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