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As a Senior SOC Engineer within Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks, you will drive the creation, validation, and optimization of custom detection rules and automated playbooks across our global customer base. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will collaborate closely with clients to maximize their security posture using Cortex XSIAM and Unit 42 expertise. This highly analytical role leverages your deep understanding of detection lifecycles, proactive automation, and threat intelligence to secure enterprise environments. You will architect end-to-end security lifecycles that seamlessly connect data ingestion with high-fidelity detection engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Own the full lifecycle of custom detections and response automations, deploying them as high-fidelity Cortex XSIAM correlation rules and playbooks through a rigorous engineering process of development, testing, staging, and soft implementation.
Drive the continuous refinement of correlation rules to ensure strict standards for performance, accuracy, and operational relevance.
Translate Unit 42 threat intelligence research and emerging adversary TTPs into actionable, robust detection logic.
Champion proactive automation by engineering sophisticated playbooks to resolve emerging security challenges and optimize operational workflows ahead of demand.
Architect the end-to-end security lifecycle within Cortex XSIAM, seamlessly connecting data ingestion, high-fidelity detection engineering, and sophisticated response automation.

Required Principal / Sr. Principal Security Research - Advanced Cyber Research (Cortex)
We are seeking a visionary and highly technical Principal / Sr. Principal Security Researcher to join our security research team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovating automated defense systems to rapidly protect platform customers against advanced cyber threats at an unprecedented scale. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend deep traditional cybersecurity expertise - including OS internals, reverse engineering, and advanced detection engineering with cutting-edge AI technologies like LLMs, SLMs, and agentic workflows.
You will spearhead the creation of innovative prevention solutions, leveraging massive streams of agent telemetry to design AI-driven logic that neutralizes threats before they execute. As a key technical leader, you will partner closely with top-tier data scientists and product engineers to translate cutting-edge security research into production-grade capabilities, ensuring we stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Automated Defense Systems:Create, engineer, and deploy automated solutions for the prevention and detection of advanced cyber threats, analyzing complex data to rapidly protect platform customers at scale.
Innovate with AI:Partner closely with data scientists to leverage LLMs, SLMs & deeplearning techniques to fuel these advanced prevention solutions and automated defense capabilities.
Research, develop, and continuously improve the Agentix solution. Drive the development of next-generation security content by designing and implementing specialized AI agents to automate security operations and workflows.
Drive Security Innovations:Spearhead new research initiatives from the ground up. Act as the primary driver across key stakeholders, leading top-tier data scientists and engineers to ensure the successful delivery of enterprise-grade security capabilities.

Principal Security Researcher (Cortex - AgentiX)
Job Summary:
As a Principal Security Researcher , you will act as an architect for the Autonomous SOC, focusing directly on Cortex AgentiX. You will design and build intelligent, automated investigation and remediation agents that empower thousands of customers to secure their environments at scale.
We are looking for a practitioner who combines deep hands-on expertise investigating threats and protecting organizations with a pragmatic approach to solving complex security challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop in-product specialized agents to accelerate detection, respond to real-time threats, prioritize, and mitigate risks.
Establish guardrails, continuous evaluation metrics, and deterministic controls for agentic AI, ensuring complex multi-step plans execute reliably.
Drive the complete product development lifecycle, encompassing definition, design, implementation, and testing phases.
Partner cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and research teams.

You will be the only SOC analyst based in Israel, while the rest of the analyst team operates from the Philippines. You will act as the SOCs local anchor - the on-site technical counterpart for the Israel-based Cyber Security, IT, Operations, and R&D teams, and the escalation and knowledge bridge between them and the offshore shifts. The role calls for ownership, independence, and the appetite to build and improve, not only to operate.

Responsibilities

Monitoring and Detection: Continuously monitor SIEM, endpoint protection (EDR), IPS, mail security, CASB, cloud, and identity security solutions to identify potential threats.
Incident Response: Serve as one of the first levels of escalation for security incidents - investigate, contain, and drive resolution before escalating to the senior SecOps members, in accordance with defined procedures and SLAs.
Incident Coordination: Lead coordination of major incidents until ownership is transferred to the relevant SecOps, IT, Operations, or R&D team; ensure clear communication, escalation, and tracking of action items.
Threat Analysis: Analyze logs, network traffic, endpoint telemetry, and native (in-tool) alerts to determine root cause, scope, impact, and remediation steps.
SIEM and Detection Engineering: Own day-to-day operation of the SIEM - data onboarding and ingest pipelines, field mapping and data quality, dashboards and platform health - and write, tune, and maintain detection rules while measuring their effectiveness.
Exclusion and Exception Management: Own the exclusion and exception lifecycle across the security stack: review requests, assess risk, apply scoped, time-bound exclusions, and revalidate them periodically.
Automation and AI-Assisted Operations: Build and maintain automations across the SOC toolchain (enrichment, containment, ticketing, reporting), and design, implement, and validate AI/LLM-based workflows for alert triage, investigation support, and documentation - including guardrails and quality control of AI output.
Investigation Documentation: Create and maintain detailed incident tickets, including investigation audit trail, action items, and timelines.
Technical Leadership: Act as the senior operational reference for the analyst team: help prioritize workload, assure investigation quality, maintain consistent handling of incidents, escalations, and shift handovers, and mentor analysts on tooling and methodology.
Collaboration: Work closely with the Cyber Security team, IT, Operations, and R&D locally, and with the offshore SOC team across time zones.
Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements to detection logic, automation, operational runbooks, and shift handover documentation based on lessons learned from incidents.
Compliance and Reporting: Support reporting for compliance audits, management reviews, and threat intelligence updates.

Required Senior/ Principal Security Researcher - Cloud & Kubernetes (Cortex)
Job Summary:
If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you. This is an opportunity to join an exceptional group of researchers working on a startup-level product within the largest security company, helping revolutionize how organizations protect their Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
Contribute to a team of talented security researchers focused on defending organizations as they transition from on-premises data centers to modern cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Drive the execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques for detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks targeting hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Define and prioritize detection use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative analytic approaches combining runtime visibility and posture management across diverse platforms.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats in both legacy and cloud contexts.
Simulate real-world attacks and perform deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content.
Collaborate across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions.
Share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications.

We are looking for a skilled Security Automation Engineer to join our SOC Automation team and play a key role in building and scaling automation across Security Operations. This is a hands-on role - you will design, develop, and integrate automation solutions across SIEM, EDR, and other security platforms, contributing to our SOAR capabilities from the ground up.

You will work in a technologically rich environment, integrating with a wide range of security and infrastructure systems across the network - a unique opportunity to build automation at scale in a greenfield setting, with real influence over the architecture and tooling decisions.

We are especially interested in candidates who are curious about leveraging AI and intelligent agents to help evolve next-generation automation and response workflows - and who want to be a driving voice in how we apply those technologies.

Your responsibilities will include:

Automation development

Design and develop automation workflows for incident response and SOC operations
Identify and eliminate manual processes through scalable automation
Build reusable components and maintainable automation patterns
Engineering & integration

Develop integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures
Write high-quality, maintainable Python for automation and orchestration
Implement data parsing, enrichment, and transformation across multiple systems
SOAR & platform buildout

Lead or actively contribute to the evaluation, selection, and implementation of SOAR/automation platforms
Design the automation architecture and integration strategy for the team
Build automation capabilities in a greenfield environment - your decisions will shape the foundation
SOC collaboration

Work closely with SOC analysts and incident responders to translate operational needs into automation solutions
Improve end-to-end detection and response workflows through close partnership with the team
AI & innovation

Actively build and evaluate AI/LLM and agent-based workflows applied to security automation
Prototype AI-assisted enrichment, triage, and response solutions and drive them toward production

we are looking for a SecOps Detection & Response.
As a Security Operations Analyst, Detection & Response, you will help protect Aidocs cloud environments, products, corporate systems, and sensitive healthcare data by investigating SIEM alerts, supporting incident response, and improving the quality of security monitoring.

This is a hands-on security operations role for someone who can analyze security signals, understand real risk, communicate clearly, and help the organization respond quickly and effectively to security events.

You will work closely with real production environments, where accurate investigation, clear documentation, and practical escalation are critical to protecting sensitive healthcare data, customer trust, and the reliability of clinical AI platform.
Responsibilities:
Own the end-to-end investigation of SIEM alerts across cloud, product, identity, endpoint, and SaaS environments: analyze the relevant evidence, separate false positives from real threats, and prioritize cases based on risk and impact.
Escalate high-risk findings with a clear summary of what happened, what is affected, why it matters, and what actions are required.
Support incident response by collecting evidence, assisting with containment, tracking remediation, and maintaining clear investigation records for internal reviews, compliance needs, and post-incident learning.
Improve SIEM rules, dashboards, alert logic, playbooks, telemetry coverage, and detection quality to reduce noise and strengthen security monitoring.
Work with Security, IT, DevOps, R&D, Product Security, and Compliance teams to resolve issues and improve security operations.

We are looking for a Security Researcher to join our research group as part of a growing team developing Autopilot, an innovative product for autonomous investigation and response.
As a core member of the team, you'll go beyond research: youll research, design, and develop investigation modules that allow Autopilot to autonomously detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats at a massive scale.
Youll analyze everything from new malware behaviors to attacker techniques and process activity in enterprise-scale networks, using data collected from across millions of endpoints. Your work will span identifying attack patterns and uncovering statistical anomalies, as well as validating that the system responds effectively to real-world attacks and APT campaigns using production data.
Key Responsibilities:
Research and implement new autonomous methods for investigating and responding to targeted attackers, using large-scale, diverse security datasets
Develop and design the graph-based algorithms that power autonomous investigation and decision-making capabilities
Design automated incident response by developing reusable logic that transforms raw security data and alerts into clear, actionable insights.
Leverage graph algorithms, AI techniques, and statistical methods to mimic and scale human security analyst workflows
Conduct deep, hands-on investigations into modern malware, APTs, and complex attack flows to inform detection and response logic
Stay up to date with attacker methodologies, tools, and techniques (TTPs), ensuring our product remains effective against evolving threats
Contribute to a collaborative, fast-paced research team, helping shape our research strategy, improve processes, and continuously enhance the product

we are looking for a Threat Researcher to join its Threat Intelligence Analysis (TIA) team. The team is responsible of discovering, analyzing and tracking advanced threat actors and campaigns, with a strong focus on high-end cybercrime and state-sponsored activities. You will join a team of motivated, independent & highly technical individuals and contribute the effort to protect our company customers and empower the company brand.
Key Responsibilities
Identify, understand and monitor advanced campaigns using publicly available sources as well as internal telemetry.
Analyze malware and other hacking tools utilized by threat actors in active campaigns and intrusions.
Create technical research content for public and private intelligence reports.
Help build protections and detections based on deep understanding of advanced threat actors Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
Collaborate with other security teams to assist threat intelligence and research tasks.

our company's attack surface spans several distinct businesses: the engine and editor developers build on, a wide portfolio of cloud products and services, a large monetization business, and a growing set of AI-assisted creation tools. Code built with our company runs everywhere from a developer's workstation to billions of end-user devices, so targets range from native binaries to distributed cloud systems to AI pipelines, and findings here matter.
This role brings an attacker's mindset to that landscape: penetration testing and red team engagements built on complex attack chains. You would combine manual techniques with automation and tooling you develop as part of your craft, extending your reach across the company ecosystem.
What you'll be doing
Plan and execute objective-based penetration tests and red team engagements across our company's products, cloud services, and infrastructure
Find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities, chain them into realistic attack paths, and demonstrate impact with reproducible proofs of concept
Develop the automation and tooling that extend the team's offensive reach across the company ecosystem
Run joint exercises with the SOC and detection engineering teams to validate telemetry and improve detections
Deliver clear findings to engineering teams and surface recurring risk patterns to security leadership.