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Palo Alto Principal Software Engineer Test Strata Cloud Service 
United States, California 
766506084

24.06.2024
Description

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

Your Career

As a Software Developer in Test, you will design, develop and deliver next generation technologies. You will build, automate, and run performance testing scenarios for our products in virtualized elements.

You will participate in design discussions and help make a difference in developing the future direction of our AI/ML 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 at 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.

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.

Your Impact

  • Design, develop and execute test automation to test software features on our next-generation security platform as part of our AI/ML Strata Cloud Service
  • Develop and maintain test automation and framework
  • Develop tools and infrastructure that enable engineers to build, test and release features confidently and continuously
  • Understand customer configurations - Debug, reproduce, verify fixes and add new test cases for issues uncovered in customer deployments
  • Verify endurance and scale testing to validate robust feature functionality under stress
  • Work closely with the Software Engineering, Product Management teams during product development from design to release
  • 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
  • Configure, build and expand both Functional and System Testbeds
  • Excellent troubleshooting abilities - Debug issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved

Your Experience

  • BS or MS in computer science or related technical field or equivalent military experience required
  • 8+ years of related experience as a Systems Test Engineer in networking/cloud technologies
  • Experience testing Cloud products such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure
  • Experience with SQL queries is required
  • Good understanding of networking concepts, L2-L7 protocols
  • Experience with API and UI automation/testing
  • Scripting and/or programming with experience in Infrastructure and Tools development
  • Experience with Unix/Linux OS
  • Comfortable with Agile methodologies and working in small and large teams
  • Testing network security products, preferably with firewalls and intrusion prevention is a plus
  • Experience with VMWare vsphere is a plus
  • Experience in testing container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
  • Experience driving performance test efforts for complex, asynchronous microservice-based systems
  • A self-starter who is confident and effective when working across distributed teams

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

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 $144,200/yr to $233,200/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .