Hiring: Senior Staff Penetration Testing Engineer Company: Palo Alto Networks Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 21:38:50 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : FedRAMP, LLM, Penetration Testing About the job Required Skills: •Conduct comprehensive penetration tests across a diverse portfolio of cloud-native applications, large-scale infrastructure, and complex network architectures, covering all FedRAMP-mandated attack vectors. •Execute multi-tenant isolation testing and segmentation validation. •Identify, exploit, and document vulnerabilities in cloud services, container orchestration platforms, and automated deployment pipelines. •Plan and lead assumed-breach, objective-based red team operations against systems — including lateral movement, privilege escalation, and persistence — to test the effectiveness of defensive controls, monitoring, and alerting systems. •Integrate AI-assisted testing frameworks and LLM-driven automation into penetration testing workflows to accelerate threat discovery, analysis, and exploit development. •Provide expert-level security guidance to SRE and Engineering teams during remediation planning and secure architectural design. •Lead the security assessment of internal tooling, identity management systems, and third-party integrations. •Research and develop custom tooling or scripts to automate testing and improve the efficiency of offensive engagements. Qualifications: •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. Compensation: •$152,300 - $246,400 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!