Principal Engineer Software, Production Engineering (Chronosphere)
About The Position
Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters. Job Summary The Team 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. Job Summary We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help ensure all components in our platform are optimized and battle-tested, so we can push our resources as far as they can go. This person has a passion for developing internal tools and platforms that are simple and easy to use, improving developer productivity across the company.
Requirements
- 10+ years in infrastructure or production-focused engineering roles.
- Ability to own projects from inception to delivery.
- Experience building high-scale systems and sophisticated application services.
- A passion for growing and mentoring peers.
- Experience with Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
- Experience operating Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale on cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting.
- Thorough experience with Linux.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with open-source communities.
Responsibilities
- Solve complex distributed systems problems at the largest scales in the world.
- Scale our infrastructure and architecture to meet the needs of the platform and its engineers.
- Use Go to build highly scalable and reliable distributed systems.
- Build on top of our architecture stack using Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS.
- Operate large-scale distributed systems globally.
- Own projects from inception to delivery, including planning, requirements gathering, and collaboration with Product.
- Mentor and up-level peers, helping junior engineers grow.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
