Sr Principal / Architect Engineer, Software - Backend, Alerting (Chronosphere)
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$184k - $297k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship core alerting and workflow features using Go on Kubernetes across AWS and GCP.
- Deliver complex product features in collaboration with product management, UX design, and engineering teams.
- Lead development of intuitive workflows, visualizations, and user experiences that support incident troubleshooting.
- Own projects from inception through delivery independently or as a technical leader of a small team.
- Help maintain automated tests, tooling, and deployment infrastructure.
- Mentor engineering colleagues through direct mentorship, program development, and infrastructure improvements.
Requirements
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Fluency in a systems-level language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
- Ability to own projects from inception to delivery and collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and engineers.
- Strong problem-solving ability, customer empathy, curiosity, and motivation to learn complex domains.
- Flexible and collaborative working style suited to a small, rapidly evolving team.
Benefits
- Remote role with geographically distributed hybrid-team collaboration.
- The posting references employee benefits and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
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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.