Staff GRC Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

Your Career

The Staff Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Engineer will report to the Manager of Customer Trust. In this role, your primary focus will be leading the engineering design, scaling, and automation of strategic GRC initiatives with a core emphasis on strengthening customer trust programs. Additionally, you will drive the advancement of third-party risk management (TPRM) and Cyber Risk Management initiatives. You will heavily influence technology-selection decisions, design automated workflows, and collaborate cross-functionally across engineering and product teams to drive risk remediation and ensure measurable, scalable security outcomes.

Your Impact

• Lead the engineering and implementation of the organization’s GRC framework, with a focus on scaling customer trust, third-party risk management, and technical standards across application, endpoint, and infrastructure security domains.
• Drive the technical execution of customer trust initiatives by automating control evidence collection using GRC/AI tools, supporting complex customer audits, and recommending remediation strategies.
• Define, operationalize, and monitor key risk and compliance indicators (KRIs/KPIs) leveraging data insights to drive accountability across business units.
• Design and scale vendor risk and technical integration assessments using automation and AI across the full TPRM lifecycle: performing vendor onboarding assessments, validating technical controls, and prioritizing remediation efforts.
• Provide actionable security intelligence on vendor and customer-facing risks to ensure remediation SLAs are met and control deficiencies are systematically reduced.
• Collaborate closely with Legal, Procurement, Product, and Security stakeholders to embed TPRM and Customer Trust requirements into contracts, SLAs, and new product integrations.
• Act as a technical mentor and thought leader within the GRC team, publishing implementation guidance and presenting risk metrics to management and technical peers.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in engineering technical solutions for solving security and compliance problems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• High technical agility with AI tools and generative AI trends, with a proven ability to creatively apply emerging technologies to automate GRC challenges.
• Proven track record of implementing and scaling enterprise GRC frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, FedRAMP), with hands-on contributions across policy, standards, and audit readiness.
• Experience working in Agile environments, driving iterative improvements in GRC tooling, workflows, and reporting.
• Extensive expertise with GRC and automation platforms (e.g., Anecdotes, OneTrust, RSA Archer, MetricStream, SOAR), including designing automated workflows and building executive-ready risk dashboards.
• Solid understanding of emerging AI regulations and guidelines (EU AI Act, FTC AI principles, NYDFS AI guidance) and embedding them into vendor risk assessments.
• Deep expertise evaluating cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) against shared-responsibility models, CSPM findings, and secure configuration frameworks (CIS, NIST).
• Strong technical foundation across application, endpoint, and infrastructure security controls to validate control design and drive remediation of identified gaps.
• Professional certifications a plus: CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or relevant cloud security credentials.

The Team

Think about it, security for the largest Cyber Security company in the world. We’re not your ordinary Information Security team. We’re a diverse group of security professionals who challenge the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers. Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within the Information Security team is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined with the brightest minds in technology, our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age .

Our Commitment

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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