Palo Alto Networks

Principal Engineer Software, Production Engineering (Chronosphere)

Palo Alto Networks$147K — $237K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in infrastructure or production-focused engineering roles.
  • Ability to own projects from inception to delivery.
  • Experience building high-scale systems and complex application services.
  • Passionate about mentoring and growing peers.
  • Proficient in Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
  • Familiar with operating Kubernetes clusters.
  • Experience deploying and managing distributed systems on GCP and AWS.
  • Strong background in monitoring and alerting with Linux expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Solve complex distributed systems problems at large scales.
  • Scale infrastructure and architecture to support platform needs.
  • Develop highly scalable distributed systems using Go.
  • Enhance architecture stack with Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS.
  • Operate large-scale distributed systems globally.
  • Lead projects from inception to delivery and collaborate with Product.
  • Mentor junior engineers to improve their skills.

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity with a collaborative hybrid team.
  • Commitment to a culture of trust, accountability, and shared success.
  • Focus on employee professional growth and innovation.
  • Diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
  • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
Full Job Description
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.

Key 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.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • 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.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with open-source communities.


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Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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