Sr Principal/ Performance & Scalability Architect (Idira)

Location: Office - Israel - CyberArk Petach Tikva

Remote Type: No

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Our Mission

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.

Who We Are

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.

Job Summary

Who We Are

As a Performance Lead in our Centralized Quality Team, you will be the architect of our performance testing ecosystem. You will build the infrastructure and define the AI-driven methodologies that allow our R&D groups to deliver the world’s most secure Identity Security platform at massive scale. This is a high-impact role where you will lead the adoption and testing of our performance stack, including tools like LoadRunner, Locust, and JMeter; leveraging GenAI for testing; utilizing observability tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, or Datadog; and operating at scale within AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).

Your Career

• Drive the cross-company performance strategy, shifting from reactive testing to proactive Performance Engineering.

• Develop centralized, reusable performance testing assets and AI-powered dashboards for use by all product teams.

• Use AI to analyze vast amounts of telemetry data, providing actionable insights into architectural weaknesses and cost-optimization opportunities.

• Partner with R&D and Product Leads to ensure performance is integrated into our CI/CD pipelines.

• Lead a performance-aware SDLC process, set KPIs, and work with R&D and Product to ensure new features meet performance demands.

• Incorporate customer requirements into testing cycles for new features and regression suites.

Qualifications

Your Experience

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.

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