Sr. Principal Software Engineer - Backend, Identity & Access Management (Chronosphere)
Palo Alto Networks1 month ago
Remote, United States +10 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the architectural direction for a granular, scalable, and reliable access control platform over a one-to-three-year horizon.
- Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, including dependency management, priority negotiation, and adoption of shared platform capabilities.
- Build and maintain hands-on backend platform capabilities in Go deployed on Kubernetes across AWS and GCP.
- Own production reliability, monitor SLOs, and address security, reliability, deployment, architectural, and tooling risks.
- Partner with product managers, infrastructure teams, security and compliance partners, customers, and consuming engineering teams to shape and deliver the roadmap.
- Mentor engineers and support interviewing and onboarding for the team.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience taking ambitious technical visions from concept to production and owning cross-team initiatives from inception through delivery.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and making reliability, scalability, security, cost, and time-to-market trade-offs.
- Experience building platform capabilities adopted by other engineering teams and driving adoption through collaboration and negotiation.
- Strong product sense, customer empathy, communication skills, and ability to work effectively through ambiguity.
- Background in platform engineering, ideally with exposure to identity, access control, or security-adjacent infrastructure; deep IAM specialization is preferred but not required.
- Fluency in a systems-level language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
- Technical depth to lead design reviews, assess risks, understand critical code paths, and evaluate engineering trade-offs directly.
- Experience partnering with infrastructure teams and familiarity with enterprise software and security-conscious customer expectations around access control, authentication, and auditability.
Benefits
- Remote role with hybrid collaboration across geographies.
- Employee benefits are available through the company benefits program.
- The position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
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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.