Palo Alto Senior Staff Software Engineer Test Automation SASE 

United States, California 

295224828

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

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.

Your Impact

• 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

Your Experience

• 6+ years experience
• M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required
• 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 or Kotlin
• 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

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 $126000 - $200,500/YR. 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.