Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Senior Staff SDET

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · Staff+ · Full-time

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About the role

  • Our product emulates complex, real-world customer environments across a wide range of operating systems, networks, and configurations.
  • Strong collaboration across Development, DevOps, and Security teams is essential as you help shape scalable testing solutions that improve engineering productivity and product quality.
  • Emulate complex customer environments, including DNS, PKI, firewall configurations, certificate lifecycle management, identity systems, and diverse operating system distributions.

Responsibilities

  • Work alongside engineers building large-scale distributed systems within Palo Alto Networks' Machine Identity platform.
  • You'll have the autonomy to design, build, and evolve solutions that directly impact product quality and engineering velocity.
  • You're proactive, eager to dive deep into complex systems, and comfortable leading technically challenging initiatives from design through implementation.
  • Build reusable components for provisioning, configuring, and managing enterprise-scale test environments across Linux and Windows systems.
  • Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews to improve automation infrastructure and engineering efficiency.
  • Advocate for continuous testing and collaborate with development teams to promote quality engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Mentor engineers on designing testable, scalable features and guide teams in selecting the appropriate testing strategies to support efficient deployment pipelines.
  • Support developers in designing and building sophisticated end-to-end testing scenarios.
  • Analyze quality trends and drive improvements that increase engineering efficiency, product quality, and release confidence.
  • Experience designing, building, and evolving automation frameworks for backend services and distributed systems.

Requirements

  • Continue growing technically: Expand your expertise across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, automation platforms, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and developer tooling.
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, test automation, SDET, or related backend engineering roles with a strong focus on automation and quality.
  • Strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows operating system fundamentals.
  • Working knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
  • experience with PKI, certificate management, or identity infrastructure is highly desirable.
  • Hands-on experience with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and system integration testing.
  • Working knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S); experience with PKI, certificate management, or identity infrastructure is highly desirable.
  • Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or custom performance frameworks.
  • Experience with public cloud platforms, with GCP preferred; AWS or Azure experience is also valuable.

Skills

  • Our testing emulates enterprise environments with diverse operating systems, networks, PKI infrastructure, and cloud-native services.

Compensation

  • The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location.
  • For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below.
  • The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

Company info

  • In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
  • We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
  • We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer who is passionate about building high-impact internal tools and test infrastructure for complex distributed systems.
  • This isn't a traditional QA role-you'll be a hands-on technical leader building automation frameworks and internal platforms that enable product teams to test faster, better, and more reliably.
  • You will play a critical role in ensuring quality by designing and building infrastructure, emulating enterprise environments, and developing engineering-focused tools that streamline testing across cloud-native microservices.
  • At Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life.
  • We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking.
  • Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts.
  • If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.
  • In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry.
  • This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion.
  • We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have.
  • If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
  • We believe collaboration thrives in person.
  • That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed.
  • This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.
  • Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion.

Equal opportunity

  • If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
  • equal opportunity employer.
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?
  • Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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