# Principal Software Automation/Test Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

- Company: Palo Alto Networks
- What the company does: Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Workforce, Leverage Threat Intelligence & Security Consulting. Cybersecurity Services & Education for CISO’s, Head of Infrastructure, Network Security Engineers, Cloud Architects & SOC Managers. Backed by Greylock, Sequoia and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Office - USA - CA - Headquarters
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://paloaltonetworks.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/panwexternalcareers/job/Office---USA---CA---Headquarters/Principal-Software-Automation-Test-Engineer_JR-024058?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/palo-alto-networks-principal-software-automation-test-engineer/

## About the role

- Own the test architecture. Define and drive the automation strategy for Cortex Cloud services - Build world-class frameworks. Design, implement, and maintain scalable, maintainable test frameworks and tooling in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript that engineering teams across the organization adopt. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 6 years focused on test automation, quality engineering, or developer productivity for large-scale distributed systems or SaaS
- Strong programming skills in at least one of Python, Go, or Java, and the ability to write production-quality code, not just scripts
- Proven record of architecting and building test automation frameworks from scratch and scaling them across multiple teams
- Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar), including pipeline design, test parallelization, and environment provisioning
- Strong cloud knowledge across GCP, AWS, and Azure: compute, networking, IAM, storage, managed data services, and cloud-native security concepts
- Solid experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/GKE/EKS/AKS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)


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