Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer Software - Developer Experience, Backend (Chronosphere)
$147K–$238K
New York City, United States of America +6 · Yes · Principal · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Location
- New York City, United States of America
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Seattle, United States of America - Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship eligible: Yes
About the job
Build backend features for Chronosphere’s observability platform, using telemetry data and AI to help customers troubleshoot systems and improve reliability.
What you'll do
- Design systems and experiences for contextualizing telemetry data and delivering customer-facing observability capabilities.
- Improve the architecture, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems.
- Collaborate with customers and teammates, shape the technical roadmap, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Strong experience with one or more backend languages.
- Experience building and operating highly available production systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and designing APIs for scale.
- Experience using AI coding assistants in day-to-day software development.
Pay
USD 147,000.00 - USD 237,500.00 annual base salary
Tools
Go, Java, Python, Rust, Cursor, Claude, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Use LLMs and ML to build customer capabilities; use AI coding assistants in software development.
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