Palo Alto Senior Staff Software Engineer Test Prisma Access AI Automation 

United States, California 

508552769

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

Your Impact

• Deliver AI-driven test automation to accelerate validation of Prisma SASE functionality, scale, and reliability that replicate real‑world network and multi‑cloud scenarios
• Design and implement agentic features (prompting, tool‑use, RAG) to re-imagine existing test engineering workflows, RCAs and automation frameworks capabilities.
• Build evaluation harnesses and integrate into CI/CD to enforce quality/safety gates and publish clear dashboards
• Partner with Dev/PM/SRE to embed quality in design and throughout the feature lifecycle
• Incorporate Customer & Field feedback to continuously improve test strategy, automation, and regression infrastructure

Your Experience

• Strong automation skills in Python or TypeScript; Playwright/Pytest preferred
• Experience with RAG or Agentic Frameworks is a huge plus along with experience with AI Driven development with tools such as Cursor, Codex or Claude Code.
• CI/CD familiarity (GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins) and basic dashboarding/reporting
• Cloud fundamentals (AWS/Azure/GCP) and solid software/QA foundations
• Experience with TCP/IP Networking, SD-WAN or Network/Data Security Technologies such as VPNs, Proxy or DLP/CASB
• Ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Networking or equivalent military experience along with 6 plus years of work experience

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 $147000/YR - $195500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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