Intern - Prisma Cloud SQA Performance Engineer

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.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of 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

Summer Internship Program from May-August or June-September provides you:

• 1:1 mentorship
• Fun and engaging events that inspire your intellectual curiosity
• Opportunities to expand your knowledge and work on challenging projects
• Connections to other interns, recent grads, and employees across the company as well as our leaders

Your Impact

• Build performance test & frameworks
• Working with cloud technologies and tools
• Define testing strategy, metrics and execute performance related requirements
• Work with full end-to-end software system and opportunity to make valuable improvements to our software performance and customer satisfaction 
• Mix of coding and analysis software engineer

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Currently working towards a B.A./B.S./B.E./M.S. in a Computer Science or Engineering 
• Interested in testing and analyzing SAAS products in cloud systems such as AWS, GCP, Azure - Any past experience around the same will be an added advantage
• Experience with programming / test automation languages like Python, pytest, Java
• Good understanding of distributed systems, computer architecture and operating systems
• Passion and exposure working with automation frameworks
• Strong communication skills and can-do attitude with an interest and aptitude for analytical problem solving
• Self-starter and highly motivated individual, keeping up-to-date on the latest tools and technologies 

Nice to have 

• ​​​​​​Exposure to Rest APIs and working big data and databases such as PostgresSQL, RDS, RedShift
• Exposure in analyzing performance of java based application and with Docker/ Kubernetes would be a huge plus

Additional Information

The Team

The Public Cloud Security team is responsible for building products that protect data, workloads and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The public cloud market has been growing at a very rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises use public cloud, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in public cloud. With the recent acquisition of two leading companies in this space - RedLock and Evident.io, Palo Alto Networks is now the market leader.

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. To learn more about our dedication to inclusion and innovation, visit our Life at Palo Alto Networks page and our diversity website.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work 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.

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.

Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.