Palo Alto Sr QA Engineer - Back End Team Cortex Cloud 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

392236063

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Your Career

As the Backend Platform group, we develop end-to-end features and provide services to other development teams within Palo Alto. Our work involves building and maintaining the platform that powers all Cortex cloud products. In this role, you will also be responsible for managing large-scale data pipelines.

This is a unique opportunity to build a large-scale product. You will have a truly unique opportunity to influence the development of a new product. The new team will work closely with the PMs, cyber-research, and Dev leaders, help define the requirements, and conduct a substantial part of the technical research.

Your Impact

• You will be responsible for the quality of a product that applies the power of Cortex cloud products to solve the challenges of data ingestion, storage, and stream processing, with a focus on ensuring reliability and efficiency for SOC teams
• Be the QA owner of relevant user stories, from inception to delivery inside a development team
• Work closely with teams of expert engineers, security researchers, and product managers to solve complex problems
• Execute QA cycles on a tight release schedule
• Gain a deep understanding of all major data ingestion and storage infrastructures
• Learn about data processing solutions and technologies
• Debug failures in complex environments

Your Experience

• 2 years of software testing experience
• Experience in defining test specifications
• Knowledge of data ingestion and stream processing technologies
• Knowledge of DBMS (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and big data solutions (e.g., Cassandra, BigQuery)
• High expertise in SQL, including complex queries and analysis
• Experience with data reliability tests, including data integrity and consistency testing
• Strong sense of ownership
• Positive 'can-do' mindset
• Working in dynamic and challenging environment
• Knowledge of Python – an advantage
• Cybersecurity background – an advantage
• Working with QA management tool (JIRA) – an advantage
• Working with CI/CD tools (JENKINS) – an advantage

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