Sr QA Engineer - Back End Team (Cortex Cloud)

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

As the Backend Platform group, we develop end-to-end features and provide services to other development teams within Palo Alto. Our work involves building and maintaining the platform that powers all Cortex cloud products. In this role, you will also be responsible for managing large-scale data pipelines.

This is a unique opportunity to build a large-scale product. You will have a truly unique opportunity to influence the development of a new product. The new team will work closely with the PMs, cyber-research, and Dev leaders, help define the requirements, and conduct a substantial part of the technical research.

Your Impact

• You will be responsible for the quality of a product that applies the power of Cortex cloud products to solve the challenges of data ingestion, storage, and stream processing, with a focus on ensuring reliability and efficiency for SOC teams
• Be the QA owner of relevant user stories, from inception to delivery inside a development team
• Work closely with teams of expert engineers, security researchers, and product managers to solve complex problems
• Execute QA cycles on a tight release schedule
• Gain a deep understanding of all major data ingestion and storage infrastructures
• Learn about data processing solutions and technologies
• Debug failures in complex environments
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 2 years of software testing experience
• Experience in defining test specifications
• Knowledge of data ingestion and stream processing technologies
• Knowledge of DBMS (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and big data solutions (e.g., Cassandra, BigQuery)
• High expertise in SQL, including complex queries and analysis
• Experience with data reliability tests, including data integrity and consistency testing
• Strong sense of ownership
• Positive 'can-do' mindset
• Working in dynamic and challenging environment
• Knowledge of Python – an advantage
• Cybersecurity background – an advantage
• Working with QA management tool (JIRA) – an advantage
• Working with CI/CD tools (JENKINS) – an advantage
  
  

Additional Information

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.