Senior Staff Software Engineer in Test (AI/ML Strata Cloud Service)

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

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

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS or MS in computer science or related technical field or equivalent military experience required
• 6+ years of related experience as a Systems Test Engineer in networking/cloud technologies
• 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 
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills
• Experience with Unix/Linux OS
• Comfortable with Agile methodologies and working in small and large teams
• Career level years of proven experience in leading test strategy Cloud products such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure
• Testing network security products, prefe