Senior SDET

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

We’re looking for a Senior-level Performance Test Engineer / Senior SDET to help us elevate performance testing as a core Quality practice across our cloud-native platform. You’ll act as a Quality and Performance Engineer who builds tooling, frameworks and infrastructure that development teams trust and adopt. Performance is a key focus of this role – but it is one aspect of a broader mission: enabling teams to build scalable, reliable and production-ready systems. Performance requirements are often implicit or under-defined – part of your role to help define what needs to be tested and how it should be measured. This role sits within our Test Enablement group and implies close collaboration with development teams, other SDETs acting as Quality champions and the Production Engineering team. Responsibilities You will have the opportunity to: Implement and evolve performance and reliability tests for cloud-native, microservices-based systems Collaborate with Test Enablement and development teams to apply an existing performance testing direction and build upon it over time Build and maintain performance test components for load generation, ramp-up and steady-state testing, result collection and analysis Execute performance tests in CI/CD pipelines and support their integration into regular development workflows Use observability tools to analyze, visualize, and communicate performance results, including latency distributions, throughput, and error rates Store, track, and compare performance results over time to help identify regressions and trends Assist in emulating realistic customer environments, including networking, certificate-based flows, and multi-service interactions Partner with development teams to help them understand performance test results and improve system behavior under load Participate in code reviews and technical discussions related to test infrastructure and performance #LI-KR1 #LI-Hybrid

Qualifications

Compensation Disclosure

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. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$126,000.00 - $204,500.00/yr

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.