Palo Alto Networks

Sr. Staff Engineer - Logging (Chronosphere)

Palo Alto Networks$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience in building scalable, high-quality systems
  • Proficiency in system-level languages like Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust
  • Demonstrated ability to independently manage projects from conception to delivery
  • Strong interest in product engineering with a focus on customer value
  • Mentoring experience with a passion for developing junior engineers
  • Adaptability and collaborative spirit in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement enhancements to metric API and telemetry collection agents
  • Collaborate across teams to shape the technical roadmap of the metrics platform
  • Improve reliability and quality practices through mentorship and infrastructure development
  • Build operational tooling and manage code in production with the cloud infrastructure team
  • Take ownership of metrics platform projects from planning to delivery

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment that fosters collaboration and support
  • Access to resources and opportunities for professional development
  • Participation in a growing and innovative technology space
  • Opportunity to contribute to a product that serves major brands
  • Participate in a culture that values teamwork and mentorship
Full Job Description
Job Summary

Chronosphere

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.

About the role

Our product is an industrial-scale software-as-a-service observability platform, and you will be designing and implementing the core of our telemetry collection agents and ingestion pipeline, responsible for handling hundreds of millions of writes per second. You will work on hard distributed systems and domain modeling problems, building a highly available API platform and telemetry collection agent where you need to optimize for every byte in memory, every CPU cycle, and every network packet. Your code will not only operate in our cloud platform, but in our customers' environments as well, making for extremely high standards around the defensiveness, security, debugability, and operability of your code.

Qualifications

You will
  • Design, implement, and test enhancements to our metric API, telemetry collection agents, and core ingestion pipeline, using Go on Kubernetes / GCP.
  • Collaborate across product, design, and infrastructure to define the architectural / technical roadmap of our metrics platform
  • Level up the reliability and software quality practices within the team via direct mentorship, program development, and development infrastructure
  • Build operational tooling for the code you write, and work with our cloud infrastructure team to manage your code in production.

What you will achieve

In the first month, you will build a deep understanding of Chronosphere's platform and begin contributing to the product. You will have time to learn about the space, our customer's needs, and the underlying technology.

Within 90 days, you will have shipped several enhancements to the metrics stack and contributed to designs shaping the overall direction of the system. You will be a core contributor to internal enhancements, and will become a go-to person in one or more areas of the system.

You have
  • A proven track record on how to build high quality highly scalable systems and experience with building sophisticated application services
  • Strong skills in a system level language(s). 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 in the types of projects where these languages are used
  • The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery (i.e. plan and gather requirements, collaborate with Product)
  • An excitement for working on a product engineering team, building and advancing our product development in ways that create tangible and direct customer value
  • A passion for growing and up-leveling your peers, and have pre-existing mentoring experience and a nuanced view around how to help junior engineers grow
  • 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


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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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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