Ci Sw Automation Lead jobs in Israel

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud, so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

You will manage a team of world-class researchers, work closely with product, engineering and go-to-market teams, and ensure our research remains cutting-edge, rigorous and impactful.

• Develop, own and evolve the research strategy by defining high value focus areas such as cloud misconfigurations, identity threats, workload vulnerabilities and side channel attacks, and ensuring alignment with Orca’s product roadmap and business objectives.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a multidisciplinary research team of cloud-security experts, threat analysts, and software engineers.
• Define metrics for research impact: e.g., number of vulnerabilities discovered, mean time to detection of new threats, number of research-driven product innovations.
• Leverage large-scale data analysis and AI/ML tools to identify trends, automate detection, and enhance cloud threat intelligence.
• Identify and drive discovery of new vulnerabilities, attack techniques or adversary behaviors targeting cloud platforms, containers, serverless, data stores etc.
• Stay current with the threat-landscape, emerging technologies, adversary tactics, and regulatory/compliance changes affecting cloud security.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and R&D teams to ensure research insights translate into concrete features, detection logic, and customer value.
• Manage the research resource planning, tooling/infrastructure for the research function – including sandbox environments, data analysis tooling, and attack simulations.
• Establish partnerships with external research groups, academic institutions, and industry peers to amplify our capabilities and knowledge network.
• Publish research findings (blog posts, white-papers, conference talks) to elevate Orca’s reputation as a cloud-security innovator.
• Influence the broader security community through vulnerability disclosures, advisory publications, industry working groups, and open research collaboration.

• 7+ years in security research, threat intelligence, vulnerability discovery or related roles, with experience and passion for leadership.
• Proven experience in managing a team – mandatory
• Deep technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), serverless, IAM, data storage, code repositories and associated threat vectors.
• Proven ability to write production-quality code, particularly in Python and Go.
• Deep experience with data systems: SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, or similar).
• Experience applying data analysis, machine learning, or AI-assisted tools (e.g., LLMs, automated pattern recognition, or anomaly detection) to security research.
• Proven track record of publishing and presenting research (vulnerability advisories, conference talks, white-papers), and translating research into product/detection capabilities.
• Hands-on ability: understanding of reverse engineering, exploit development, or other cutting-edge security techniques.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills: building and scaling a team, setting vision, driving execution.
• Excellent communication skills: able to share technical insights with engineering, product, senior leadership, and external audience.
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and the ability to align research activities with company objectives.

• Experience building or contributing to security-product codebases (e.g. scanning engines, detection frameworks, or telemetry pipelines).
  

• High-growth: Over the past six years, we’ve consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. During this time, we’ve significantly grown our employee base, expanded our customer reach, and rapidly advanced our product capabilities.
• Disruptive innovation: Our founders saw that traditional security didn’t work for the cloud so they set out to carve a new path. We’re relentless pioneers who invented agentless technology and continue to be the most comprehensive and innovative cloud security company.
• Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn dominating the cloud security space. We’re backed by an impressive team of investors such as Capital G, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI, a syndicate of CISOs who invest their own money after conducting their due diligence.
• Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible to everyone and believe in sharing knowledge with the employees. Each employee has a place in shaping the future of our industry.

You’ll lead a group of talented senior engineers, providing both technical and people leadership while staying hands-on in design and implementation. Together, you’ll drive key architectural decisions and evolve our ingestion and processing layers to support real-time pipelines, improve observability, and enable greater horizontal scalability.

Our Stack:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior software engineers through one-on-ones, feedback, and technical guidance
• Own and drive the delivery of high-impact projects end-to-end, from design through deployment and production monitoring
• Design and review architecture for large-scale distributed systems focused on data ingestion, normalization, and availability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, SRE, and other R&D teams to define priorities, interfaces, and success metrics
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and observability of core services, introducing SLOs and best practices for operations
• Participate in incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and accountability within the team
• Write and review clean, maintainable, and tested, take part of the on-call rotation

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years in a team lead role
• Proven experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale, data-intensive systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design, concurrency, synchronization, data modeling, and performance optimization
• Hands-on experience with at least one of: Python, Go – Must .
• Experience with distributed data processing tools like Kafka (Advantage)
• Hands-on experience with databases such as SingleStore, Postgres, Redis
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and services (AWS preferred)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align engineers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical growth
• Comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people and project leadership responsibilities
• Experience with real-time data processing and streaming pipelines (Advantage)

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

We need an experienced engineer with a passion for building, deploying, and scaling our Security AI systems and environment. This is a hands-on role that combines research, devops and data science. The role requires a constant creative trailblazing mindset and novel non-linear thinking. You will develop and enhance complex agentic AI products, architect for scale, and optimize for performance. Additionally, you will be responsible for turning innovative AI concepts into robust, efficient, and reliable services for multiple teams.

Your Impact

• Research, Evaluate and leverage the power of AI and LLMs in cybersecurity
• Perform complex AI evaluations on LLM based cybersecurity features and products
• Implement and optimize advanced AI/LLM systems, including complex RAG pipelines and efficient multi-tool agentic workflows
• Develop and contribute to AI frameworks and services that provide game-changing capabilities
• Transform strategic vision into production-grade reality
• Perform Data-driven research on big data platforms

Your Experience

• 3+ years experience as an engineer / researcher
• Expert-level proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with AI systems and agentic AI workflows
• Hands-on LLM experience: AI best practices, prompt engineering, model selection, etc
• An innovator's mindset: You thrive on solving ambiguous, open-ended problems and are driven to build novel solutions where no playbook exists.
• Cybersecurity experience - Big Advantage
• Practical experience with modern MLOps/DevOps tools and practices - Big Advantage
• Experience with XDR/SIEM/EDR/NDR product - Advantage

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As our Senior Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for product quality, test design, and planning. You will develop automation tests and the required infrastructure, focusing on Windows and macOS environments. This includes deployment, execution, and validation across multiple system configurations. You will work closely with the development team to investigate and resolve issues discovered during testing.

The role is deeply hands-on, requiring a strong understanding of the product, operating systems, and automation frameworks. You should have the ability to streamline processes, enhance test coverage, and improve efficiency through automation using Python.

Your Impact

Design and execute E2E tests for multiple Operating systems (Windows, macOs , Linux) Test new features, focusing on deep internal aspects of the feature and its integration with the OS Learn new features, technologies and platforms in a relatively short amount of time Reproduce and analyze bugs, that either came from the field or have been found during the testing cycle Run QA cycles on a tight release schedule Work closely with developers, product managers and other QA teams - being involved during the entire release cycle from planning through execution and final delivery Make a significant impact on the design, implementation and quality of the product Qualifications Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience QA automation developer (Python)
• Knowledge of continuous integration (CI/CD) and object oriented automation frameworks - Mandatory
• Strong expertise with Operating systems (Windows advantage)
• Background and experience in Endpoint security - Advantage
• Familiar with endpoint security testing infrastructure and system-level automation
• Familiarity with virtualization and deployment tools for Windows/macOS (e.g., VMware, Parallels, Jamf, SCCM) – Advantage
• Quick learner with the ability to grasp new technologies efficiently
• Capable of working independently and collaboratively within a team, even under pressure, while maintaining focus and a positive attitude

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

You will report to the global sales leader for Prisma Browser and will work closely with the founders of Prisma Browser; formerly Talon.

Your Impact

• Exciting opportunity to be a leader on the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing sales specialists to achieve and exceed revenue targets.

• Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning and a customer-centric approach within the sales team.

• Lead from the front. Engage in executive-level discussions with CIOs and CISOs in North America, translating complex cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including sales engineers, product, marketing, R&D, BDR and alliances, to support deal execution and customer success.

• Develop and implement data-driven sales strategies, leveraging forecasting and pipeline management tools to optimize team performance.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of field sales experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years in a director and above role.

• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performance sales teams in a high-growth environment with a large quota/deals

• Strong understanding of complex solution sales methodologies, value selling and enterprise buying processes with operational discipline

• Experience selling SASE, SWG, SSE, EDR or CASB solutions is highly preferred.

• Established relationships with F500 security decision-makers (CIOs, CISOs) and the ability to drive strategic conversations.

• Expertise in channel and partner sales strategies, with a deep understanding of go-to-market models.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed sales organization with a focus on continuous expansion and customer success

• “Whatever it takes” attitude and motivation to deliver above quota performance

• Desire and ability to travel domestically as needed to support team members, engage strategic customers and business needs.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $414000 - $482925. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.