Principal Software Automation/Test Engineer
About The Position
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! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary Your Career As a Software Engineer in test on our Prisma Access Cloud Service team, you will design, develop and deliver next-generation technologies. You will build, automate, and run performance testing scenarios for our products in virtualized elements. We are looking for highly technical individuals driven in their desire to get hands-on experience with a wide variety of networking technologies. You'll work closely with our development and product management teams, testing and presenting the results to identify new approaches. You will participate in design discussions and help make a difference in developing the future direction of our software. You will drive the efficiency and reliability of our products by testing them thoroughly to understand potential risks, bugs, or issues, providing an exemplary product experience for our end users. You strive for the best in everything you do—meaning you won’t rest until the products you work on are of the highest quality. You love hunting for problems within code, seeking issues to correct, and enjoy the challenge of a code-based scavenger hunt that includes testing, providing feedback, and identifying alternative suggestions for our product’s environment. Prisma Access™ extends the protection of our next-generation security platform. Prisma Access Cloud Service operationalizes the deployment by leveraging a cloud-based security infrastructure operated by Palo Alto Networks. It uses cutting-edge public and private cloud technologies extending the next generation security protection to all cloud services, customers on-premise remote networks and mobile users.
Requirements
- 7 + plus years experience
- Be proficient in one or more scripting/programming languages including Python or Go
- Experience with L4-L7 TCP Layers HTTP IPSec, BGP, L3 VPNs, SD-WAN, DHCP, UDP Networking - Expert level
- Experience with REST API driven Automation using Python or Go
- Experience with Robot Framework or Pytest
- Experience with Cloud Technologies such Aws/Azure/GCP
- Experience with DB clusters (MySQL,BQ, Redis,,Zookeeper,Neo
- Experience with Linux or Esxi Virtualization or Docker/Kubernetes is a plus
- M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and execute test automation to test software features on our next-generation security platform as part of our Prisma Access Cloud Service
- Become inventive in testing approaches by building tools and automation scripts
- Suggest and implement improvements to the test process
- File bugs and work with Development to fix issues seen
- Mix in your creative skills with a focused testing approach to produce the best quality products in cybersecurity
- Be involved in a rigorous approach to testing for specifications, assist the team with testing methods or tools for new testing
- You will also have the chance to work on different public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to automate cloud orchestration, visualization and alerting mechanisms
Benefits
- A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
