Principal Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere)
Palo Alto Networks7 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services for high-volume telemetry data.
- Develop ingestion, storage, indexing, and querying systems for time-series and event data.
- Improve the performance, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems.
- Design clean and efficient APIs in collaboration with frontend teams.
- Contribute to data modeling strategies for high-cardinality observability workloads.
- Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
- Operate systems processing large-scale real-world production traffic.
- Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards.
- Collaborate with technical teammates and customers on observability platform challenges.
Requirements
- Strong experience with one or more backend languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor or Claude in day-to-day software development.
- Experience building and operating highly available production systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience designing APIs using REST, gRPC, or GraphQL.
- Ability to independently own projects from inception through delivery.
- Effective collaborative working style and strong ownership.
Benefits
- Remote role with hybrid teams collaborating across geographies.
- Employee benefits are available as described by the company.
- Reasonable accommodations are provided for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.