Senior Staff Engineer (QA - NGFW)

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.

Our Approach to Work

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

Palo Alto Networks NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) group is looking for a seasoned and accomplished Senior Staff Software Engineer in Test engineer with experience in designing and developing infrastructure tools and scripts.  You will be part of a world-class software test engineering team that focuses on development of infrastructures for Regression test authoring and execution of various ground-breaking technologies in the Layer 2-7 domain.

You will work with a multi-functional team of engineers solving interesting problems in the area of multi-product, customer focused end to end Regression testing.

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.

Your Impact

• Work in a small and fast paced team to solve important customer problems and deliver most impactful results
• Work with different development and quality assurances groups to achieve the best quality
• Suggest and implement improvements to the Regression testing process 
• Interview, mentor and coach new team members 
• Design and develop scripts and tools in Python for automated regression testing execution
• Consult with developers, Test Engineering, and IT engineers to define regression testing requirements
• Design and develop dashboards and tooling in Python
• Design of  automation infrastructure testbeds and tools

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in a test position
• Education - Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent military experience required
• Detailed understanding of modern network design, implementation, and troubleshooting
• Experience testing network security products, preferably with firewalls and intrusion prevention
• L3 network testing experience with knowledge of most common switching and routing protocols - Knowledge of L4-L7 network layers
• Experience with Python and similar scripting language, and strong ability to develop, maintain, and monitor automated processes is must
• Experience with testing public Cloud and virtualization environments is plus
• Good knowledge of networking and ability to work with open source traffic generators and tools
• Experience with commercial and non-commercial networking test equipment (e.g. Avalanche, IXIA, SPIRENT) is essential
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must
• Past experience with technical presentations, customer interfacing, and requirements interpretation is highly desirable

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