Principal Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere)
About The Position
Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is an observability platform for modern containerized environments. It helps customers reduce telemetry complexity and costs, and troubleshoot issues faster. The company is seeking an experienced, product-driven senior engineer to build core systems for its observability platform, which ingests and analyzes metrics, logs, traces, and events at scale. The role focuses on highly scalable distributed systems that ingest, store, query, and process large volumes of telemetry data in near real time. The position is remote and involves working with a distributed team.
Requirements
- Strong experience in 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 software development.
- Experience building and operating highly available systems in production.
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience designing APIs, including REST, gRPC, or GraphQL.
- Strong ownership and ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery.
- Effective collaborative working style and willingness to contribute to a positive, supportive team environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services that process high-volume telemetry data.
- Develop systems for ingestion, storage, indexing, and querying of time-series and event data.
- Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems.
- Collaborate with frontend teams to design clean, efficient APIs.
- Contribute to data modeling strategies for high-cardinality observability workloads.
- Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
- Improve system observability and reliability.
- Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards.
- Operate systems that process large-scale real-world production traffic.
- Collaborate with technical teammates and customers, and help shape the platform's architecture.
Benefits
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus.
- Employee benefits are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed in the posting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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