Palo Alto Networks

Sr Principal / Architect Engineer, Software - Backend, Alerting (Chronosphere)

Palo Alto Networks$183K — $297K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven ability to independently lead projects or guide a small team from inception to delivery.
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and a customer-focused mindset.
  • Motivated to learn complex domain areas and technologies.
  • Open to feedback and seeks assistance when needed.
  • Collaborative working style suited to a small, dynamic team.
  • Fluency in a system-level programming language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement product enhancements using Go deployed on Kubernetes.
  • Deliver complex features addressing customer pain points in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Foster an environment of accelerated learning and continuous growth among engineers.
  • Challenge assumptions and refine designs based on user insights.
  • Lead the development of user experiences that streamline troubleshooting efforts.
  • Collaborate to create actionable data visualizations and workflows.
  • Build and maintain automated tests and deployment infrastructure.
  • Mentor peers in engineering high-quality user experiences.

Benefits

  • Immigration sponsorship eligibility offered.
  • Opportunity for continuous growth and career development.
  • Work within a supportive and positive team environment.
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 #1 reason organizations invest in an observability tool is to know when something is broken so they can fix it. This has been the case for over 25 years. The Alerting Platform & Workflows team focuses on providing a reliable, fast and intuitive experience for configuring, receiving, and responding to alerts.

Our users-software developers-need to troubleshoot issues that impact their own users. We build products that help suggest possible next steps to investigate, narrow down possibilities, and quickly root-cause issues. We are seeking experienced engineers who can craft intuitive, fast, and reliable user experiences empowering software engineers to diagnose and resolve incidents with confidence.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and ship enhancements and new features to core product capabilities using Go, deployed on Kubernetes across cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP
  • Design, implement, and deliver complex product features that address key customer pain points, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams-including product management, design, and engineering-to ensure alignment and impact throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Work closely with talented engineers in a fast-paced environment that fosters accelerated learning, continuous growth, and career development
  • Think beyond implementation-challenge assumptions, refine designs based on user feedback, and take ownership of delivering polished, effective user experiences.
  • Lead 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 turn complex data into actionable, easy-to-understand visualizations and workflows.
  • Share accountability with other engineers across the company to build and maintain automated tests, tooling, and deployment infrastructure that improve efficiency.
  • Mentor your colleagues in engineering reliable, performant, high-quality user experiences through direct mentorship, program development, and engineering infrastructure improvements.


Required Qualifications
  • The ability to own projects from inception to delivery either independently or as a technical leader of a small team, all while collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers.
  • Experience in working with large scale distributed systems
  • A passion for solving complex problems and ability to empathize with customers
  • The curiosity and motivation to learn deep complex domain areas
  • The habit to seek feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when you need it
  • A flexible, collaborative working style. We're a small team working in a rapidly evolving space, and we're looking for people that will help build a positive, supportive environment
  • Fluency in a system level language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust. Knowing a specific language isn't important; what matters is that you've become fluent in one by spending a lot of time on the types of projects where these languages are used


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.

$183,600.00 - $297,000.00/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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