Principal Engineer Software - Developer Experience, Backend

Role Description

We are looking for experienced engineers with a strong product sense who asks "why" as often as "how”. You’ll use systems thinking to design workflows that surface key business insights. This role is perfect for someone who wants to own the technical roadmap and ship features that redefine how teams collaborate during mission-critical moments.

• Directly impact how customers leverage observability for their infrastructure and services architecture
• Leverage AI infrastructure like LLMs, ML to build innovative capabilities for our customers
• Design experiences and systems for contextualizing large amounts of telemetry data
• Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform
• Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers
• Improve our own system observability (we use our own product heavily)
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems
• Mentor engineers and help maintain our engineering standards

Qualifications

• Strong experience in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Rust)
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude) as part of day-to-day software development
• Experience building and operating highly available systems in production
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) for scale
• Experience working effectively with cross functional partners
• Experience owning and executing projects from inception to delivery
• Experience working with a high degree of autonomy with good judgement on when to push forward and when to ask for help
• An effective collaborative working style and willingness to build and maintain a positive and supportive environment
• An ability to operate effectively in a remote first environment

Benefits

• Compensation range: $147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr
• Offered compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus.

Company Description

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. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affirm, and Zillow.