Palo Alto Networks
Principal Threat Hunter (Unit 42)
$164K–$265K
Seattle, United States of America · Yes · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in tactical threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), DFIR, or advanced security operations.
- Visa sponsorship
- Will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
About the job
Leads intelligence-led threat hunting across customer environments, translating adversary intelligence and telemetry into investigations, actionable findings, and customer notifications.
What you'll do
- Analyze threat intelligence and frontline incident data to track adversaries, campaigns, and behaviors.
- Develop hunting hypotheses, queries, and workflows; investigate customer telemetry and report consequential findings.
- Collaborate across threat hunting, detection, incident response, MDR, and research teams; mentor junior hunters.
What they ask for
- Strong tactical threat intelligence skills, including identifying adversary artifacts and behavioral fingerprints across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity telemetry.
- Experience capturing and modeling incident data in intelligence platforms or graphs to map intrusions and campaigns.
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to customers in verbal and written notifications.
- Experience translating threat intelligence into hunting hypotheses, detection logic, and log-based queries.
Nice to have
- Experience in incident response consulting or managed security services; proficiency building AI tooling; GCP; Vertex Synapse analysis or modeling; or published security research.
Pay
$163,900.00 - $265,100.00/yr USD, base salary
Tools
GCP, Vertex Synapse
AI focus
Bonus: proficiency in building AI tooling.
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