Sr Staff Engineer, Software - Backend, AI Observability/Evaluations (Chronosphere)
Palo Alto Networks18 hours ago
Remote, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build backend capabilities for observing and evaluating AI models, agents, and RAG applications before and during production.
- Design systems for testing, measuring, and benchmarking AI application accuracy, relevance, performance, and safety.
- Build scalable APIs and data-processing systems for AI telemetry and evaluation results.
- Shape the technical roadmap and architecture for AI Observability and Evaluation.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and customers to scope, validate, and deliver integrated features and developer workflows.
- Improve system observability, distributed-system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor engineers and help maintain engineering standards.
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong experience with one or more backend languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
- Experience building and operating highly available systems in production.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs for scale.
- Some experience developing LLM-powered product features is desirable.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Codex, or Claude.
- Experience owning projects from inception through delivery and working autonomously with sound judgment.
- Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote role with a remote-first work environment and geographically distributed hybrid teams.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diverse and inclusive teams.
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.