Senior Software Engineer - Security Research (Intrusion Prevention System Development)

Job Description
Your Career
You will be part of the team that develops the Intrusion Prevention System to power the Palo Alto Network’s next generation firewall. The content team is responsible for decoding network protocols, identifying applications and detecting threats on enterprise customers’ networks, providing common service to support a variety of network security services.
As a member of the content team, you have the opportunity to work on our IPS content engine and other advanced threat prevention products, and collaborate with different intelligent teams on various advanced cybersecurity features.
Your Impact
Research protocol RFC and related application implementation
Research common file types for file identification, blocking, DLP, etc.
Research and provide defense mechanisms against popular protocol/firewall evasions
Develop protocol and file type decoders, and integrate the detection solutions into the IPS engine of the Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall
Build common services to support various network security services
Develop internal tools to monitor and support the cyber security products
Cross-team collaboration, discover and integrate advanced cybersecurity features to inline product solutions