Principal Engineer Software (NGFW/Cloud Security Test Engineering)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

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

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) group is looking for a seasoned and accomplished test / Automation engineer with experience in validating core networking & security features in the test engineering team. You will be part of a world-class software test engineering team that works on various ground-breaking security (On-Prem and Cloud) technologies / use cases. You will work with a multi- functional team of engineers solving interesting problems in the  area of L2-7 / Cloud security.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers who have intellectual curiosity, love the challenge of solving complex problems with variable factors and creativity in obtaining solutions.We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• Responsible for testing of Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall and features
• Develop, execute and automate  test plans and test cases
• Develop tools and infrastructure to improve the quality and efficiency of testing
• Work closely with the Software Engineering, Product Management teams during product development from design to release
• Reproduce and debug issues found during and after software release
• Develop and maintain complex testbed environments

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a BS OR MS degree in Network and Security domain with Test Engineering experience in platforms, infrastructure and systems area or equivalent military experience required
• Prior experience in Test Engineering position
• L2-L3 network testing experience with knowledge of most common switching and routing protocols - Knowledge of L4-L7 layers is desirable
• Experience with bug tracking tools such as Jira and versioning systems like git is desirable
• Experience in networking equipment (routers and switches) and usage of test tools (ixia/spirent etc)
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux system set up and administration - Experience in virtualization and setting up ESXi or KVM based virtual machines is a plus
• Must be proficient in Python (or other similar) scripting and/or automation

Preferred Skills

• Experience testing network security products, preferably with firewalls and intrusion prevention
• Knowledge of encryption and tunneling protocol test methods
• Experience with open source test and Network traffic generating tools and good to have experience with typical test tools from Spirent, Breaking Point, and Ixia
• Experience setting testbeds in a Virtualization environment is desirable
• Exposure to Cloud Technologies (AWS,GCP,Azure or any other cloud) 

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has purs