Principal Software Engineer – Customer Profile Test Engineering
| Company | Palo Alto Networks |
|---|---|
| Location | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Detailed understanding of modern network design, implementation, and troubleshooting
- Experience testing network security products, preferably with firewalls and security services
- Experience with GNU tools and good to have experience with typical test tools from Spirent and Ixia
- Experience with Python and similar scripting language, and strong ability to develop, maintain, and monitor automated processes is must
- Experience testing L4-L7 Network layers
- L3 network testing experience with knowledge of most common switching and routing protocols
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must
- BS/MS degree with minimum 8+ years of experience in the networking security industry, or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and validate customer focused use cases on our next-generation security platform & cloud security services
- Ownership of end to end workflow for major components of the service in its first release
- Leadership opportunity to drive collaboration with internal/external cross-functional efforts to deliver best in quality software
- Open Engineering environment to suggest and improve the development process for an agile team
- Collaboratively work with DevOps and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues and build better customer experiences
- Interview, mentor and coach new team members as part of the growing team
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with testing in a Virtualization environment, including cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP etc. is plus
- Past experience with technical presentations, customer interfacing, and requirements interpretation is plus