Behavioral Threat Prevention Testing Automation (Cortex XDR)

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. 

Job Description

Your Career

We are looking for a highly technical individual to join our Cortex XDR Agent team as an Automation and Tools Engineer. The team builds the foundation of the Cortex XDR endpoint agent, from security modules to server communication and task management. The agent already runs on millions of machines - Windows, Mac and Linux. The team constantly delivers new features and solves real customer issues.

As an Automation and Tools Engineer, You will join as an integral member of the development team. You will help us automate our testing and deployment processes, find creative ways to test and prove our features work (or break them apart!), build tools and tests that improve product quality and get involved in the entire development life-cycle, from the design phase up to deployment to real use-cases.

Your Impact

• Participate in full product release cycles, from feature design to version release
• Design and build tests for new features we’re introducing in the product - Our existing framework is Python-based, but challenges may span from writing tests in Python to deep-diving into product code in other languages across our stack
• Help design and build new frameworks to make testing easier and more accessible to developers
• Maintain existing automatic tests and investigate failures
• Help reduce the amount of effort required to analyze issues by creating custom tools

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Excellent coding skills in Python
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming design concepts
• A quick learner with a demonstrated ability to shift to new technologies
• Knowledge of continuous integration, automated tools, and best practices in automation
• Experience with at least one cloud provider such as Azure, AWS or GCP - an advantage
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) - an advantage
• Experience with the ELK stack or Splunk - an advantage
• Attention to details and high behavioral standards
• A strong passion for product quality and continuous willingness to improve the product
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, work under pressure and maintain focus and a sense of humor

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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