Palo Alto Networks
Principal Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere)
$147K–$238K
Burbank, United States of America +9 · Yes · Principal · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Location
- Burbank, United States of America
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- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Builds and operates scalable backend systems for ingesting, storing, processing, and querying high-volume telemetry for a cloud-native observability platform.
What you'll do
- Design and build systems for telemetry ingestion, storage, indexing, and querying.
- Improve distributed-system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency; contribute to architecture and data modeling.
- Design APIs and collaborate across teams; mentor engineers and improve engineering standards.
What they ask for
- Strong experience in one or more backend languages.
- Experience using AI coding assistants in day-to-day software development.
- Experience building and operating highly available production systems and working with cloud infrastructure.
- Experience designing APIs.
Pay
$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr (base salary)
Tools
Go, Java, Python, Rust, Cursor, Claude, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Use AI coding assistants such as Cursor or Claude as part of day-to-day software development.
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