Threat Hunting Researcher

🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $117k - $189.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Palo Alto Networks

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10,000+ employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $1M Seed Round - Morta Security on 2013-02

Cybersecurity • Enterprise

Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity company that provides AI-driven platforms, products, and services to protect networks, cloud workloads, endpoints, and applications. Its portfolio includes next-generation firewalls, SASE and Prisma Cloud (CNAPP) offerings, the Cortex security operations suite (XDR, XSOAR, XSIAM), and Unit 42 threat intelligence and incident response services. Palo Alto Networks helps enterprises secure AI deployments, automate SOC workflows, and prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

📋 Description

• Provide coverage for core threat hunting activities • Collaborate with and guide customers on urgent hunting-related requests and suspected security incidents • Execute threat hunting reports and workflows, investigate results, and support timely customer reporting • Investigate hunting leads based on IOCs, threat intelligence, and internal detections • Monitor the threat landscape and prepare initial context for emerging campaigns • Escalate major or high-impact security events to leadership • Support the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team with hunting-related activities • Provide ongoing feedback on findings, reports, queries, and workflows for continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience in threat hunting, incident investigation, SOC analysis, detection engineering, DFIR, or MDR • Strong understanding of the evolving threat landscape, attack tools, tactics, techniques, and networking/security fundamentals • Experience investigating suspicious activity, security incidents, or targeted threats across endpoints, networks, identity, and cloud • Ability to work independently, make sound investigative decisions, and escalate findings requiring additional review • Experience handling customer-facing security requests, including clear written communication, investigation summaries, and recommendations • Understanding of attacker behaviors, including attack vectors, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exfiltration • Background in writing, modifying, or executing detections, hunting queries, or log-based investigations • Familiarity with organizational cybersecurity measures, including protective tools, response actions, and remediation techniques • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, with strong attention to detail for documenting investigation logic • Experience in an Incident Response environment • Proficiency in Python and SQL • Familiarity with malware analysis • Experience writing technical reports, investigation summaries, or customer-facing security analysis • Ability to analyze and understand the infrastructure, behaviors, and objectives of malicious campaigns • Must not require immigration sponsorship; the employer will not sponsor work visas for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted stock units may be included • Bonus may be included • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with a disability or special need