Palo Alto Networks

Principal Software Engineer - Frontend, Developer Experience

Palo Alto Networks$130K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on user experience.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for product development.
  • Familiarity with observability tools and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Strong curiosity and a desire to learn complex topics in observability.
  • Flexibility and teamwork in rapidly changing environments.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the creation of user-friendly experiences that highlight critical data insights.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to streamline complex data into clear interfaces.
  • Seek and incorporate user feedback, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
  • Enhance the UI and API architecture in collaboration with other engineers.
  • Engage with a dynamic team to facilitate ongoing learning and professional growth.
  • Take shared responsibility for automated testing and deployment infrastructure.
  • Mentor peers in delivering high-quality user experiences through direct guidance.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for accelerated learning and continuous growth.
  • Flexible work culture in a dynamic environment.
  • Immigration sponsorship eligibility.
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

The Developer Experience group is focused on improving the experience for our end users across our industrial-scale Software-as-a-Service observability platform. We are seeking experienced engineers who can craft intuitive, fast, and reliable user experiences empowering software engineers to diagnose and resolve incidents with confidence. You will collaborate directly with Product, Design, and engineering peers to build interfaces that help developers navigate complex environments with petabytes of telemetry data, turning that data into actionable, easy-to-understand visualizations and workflows.

Key Responsibilities
  • Drive development of user experiences that surface critical insights at a glance, streamline troubleshooting, and reduce cognitive load during high-pressure situations.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate complex observability data into intuitive interfaces and workflows.
  • Question designs, incorporate user feedback, and own the quality of what you ship.
  • Work with engineers across the organization to evolve the architecture powering our UIs and APIs (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, NodeJS).
  • Work closely with talented engineers in a fast-paced environment that fosters accelerated learning, continuous growth, and career development.
  • Share accountability with UI-focused engineers across the company to build and maintain automated tests, tooling, and deployment infrastructure to improve efficiency.
  • Mentor your colleagues in engineering reliable, performant, high-quality user experiences through direct mentorship and engineering infrastructure improvements.
  • Contribute to the direction of the product, and help evolve the overall platform architecture to meet product and scale needs.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Independently own projects from inception to delivery while collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers.
  • Experience using observability tools and/or working with large-scale distributed systems to empathize with our customers and understand their observability challenges.
  • Curiosity and motivation to learn deep, complex domains.
  • A habit of seeking feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when you need it.
  • A flexible, collaborative working style in a rapidly evolving space.
  • Fluency in building products with TypeScript and React.


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.

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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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