Palo Alto Networks
Sr Principal / Architect Engineer Software - Backend, Alerting (Chronosphere)
San Francisco, United States of America +6 · Yes · Principal · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2026
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- San Francisco, United States of America
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About the job
Designs and leads backend and alerting product development for Chronosphere’s observability platform, helping software engineers detect, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and ship product features using Go on Kubernetes across cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
- Lead development of alerting and troubleshooting experiences, including visualizations and workflows that make insights actionable.
- Own projects from design through delivery, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, and mentor colleagues.
What they ask for
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Fluency in a system-level language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
- Ability to own projects from inception to delivery, independently or as a technical leader of a small team, while collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and engineers.
- Customer empathy, complex-problem-solving ability, and a collaborative working style.
Tools
Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, C++, Java, C#, Rust
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