[Hiring] Principal Engineer Software - Storage, Integrations @Palo Alto Networks

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced product driven engineer to help our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their systems at scale. Our platform ingests and analyzes high-volume telemetry data — metrics, logs, traces, and events — enabling our customers to understand system behavior, improve reliability, and reduce MTTR across modern cloud-native environments.

We’re looking for a senior engineer who can help design and build the core systems that power our observability platform. You’ll work on highly scalable distributed systems that ingest, store, query, and process massive volumes of telemetry data in near real time. This role requires strong systems thinking, API design skills, and experience building reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Work on technically challenging problems with some of the largest distributed systems in the world
• Directly impact how engineering teams debug production systems
• Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform
• Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers
• Operating systems that process large-scale real-world production traffic

Requirements

• Strong experience in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Rust)
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude) as part of day-to-day software development
• Experience building and operating highly available systems in production
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• A strong sense of ownership and can independently own projects from inception to delivery
• An effective collaborative working style

Benefits

• The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location.
• The starting base salary is expected to be in the annual range of $156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr.
• Offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

Company Description

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affirm, and Zillow.