Senior Performance Engineer (Cortex)

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!

Job Description

Are you a highly technical individual with a passion for performance engineering? Join our innovative Cortex Server Performance team as a Senior Performance Engineer!

Our team is responsible for all performance aspects of Cortex, developing, maintaining, and executing various performance tests to ensure our products are stable, scalable, and meet our SLA.

As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will work on the Cortex platform, serving many teams and customers. You will diagnose and solve performance-related issues in a highly challenging product at a massive scale. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with different engineering teams to enhance performance test coverage for existing and new features and to automate our performance regression tests.

Your Impact

• Design and build internal tools for the execution and monitoring of automated performance tests.
• Design and develop new automated performance tests for complex cloud infrastructure.
• Execute performance tests, analyze results, identify performance issues and bottlenecks, and propose improvements for system stability and quality.
• Work with cloud technologies and tools
• Collaborate closely with various engineering groups throughout the product development lifecycle, from requirements to release.
  
  

• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• At least 3 years of experience as a performance engineer
• Strong knowledge of performance test concepts.
• Experience with load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Locust).
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Solid experience in Python.
• Proficiency in diagnosing and solving complex problems with detailed technical analysis.
• Creativity in automating manual processes using various technologies and innovative approaches.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in both Hebrew and English.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.