Principal Engineer Software - Developer Experience, Backend (Chronosphere)
Palo Alto Networks7 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design backend experiences and systems for contextualizing large amounts of telemetry data.
- Build innovative customer capabilities using AI infrastructure such as LLMs and ML.
- Shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling observability platform.
- Improve the performance, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems.
- Directly improve how customers use observability for infrastructure and service architectures.
- Own and execute projects from inception through delivery and help shape the technical roadmap.
- Collaborate with technical teammates, customers, and cross-functional partners.
- Mentor engineers and help maintain engineering standards.
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 development.
- Experience building and operating highly available production systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs at scale.
- Ability to work autonomously, exercise good judgment, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
- Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first environment.
Benefits
- US-remote work arrangement in a remote-first environment.
- The compensation package may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base salary.
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.