Principal QA Engineer - Data Storage and Ingestion pipelines (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

Your Career

XDR is developing a new offering to help SOC teams investigate and respond to security incidents. This requires a different set of skills than those applied to traditional security, and the majority of security solutions today are targeting DevSecOps teams, while Cortex XDR is putting the emphasis on SOC investigation and response.

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.

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer, who will join our team!

Your Impact

• You will be responsible for the quality of a product that applies the power of XDR 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

• 6+ 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
• Knowledge of Python – an advantage
• Cybersecurity background – an advantage

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and 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 one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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.

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Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.