Principal Engineer Software, Production Engineering (Chronosphere)

Palo Alto Networks is a leading cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting digital lives through innovative technology. They are seeking a Principal Engineer in Production Engineering to optimize their observability platform, focusing on developing internal tools and improving developer productivity across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Solve complex distributed systems problems at the largest scales in the world
• Scale our infrastructure and architecture to meet the needs of the platform and its engineers
• Use Go to build highly scalable and reliable distributed systems
• Build on top of our architecture stack using Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS
• Operate large-scale distributed systems globally
• Own projects from inception to delivery, including planning, requirements gathering, and collaboration with Product
• Mentor and up-level peers, helping junior engineers grow

Requirements:

• 10+ years in infrastructure or production-focused engineering roles
• Ability to own projects from inception to delivery
• Experience building high-scale systems and sophisticated application services
• A passion for growing and mentoring peers
• Experience with Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust
• Experience operating Kubernetes clusters
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale on cloud providers like GCP and AWS
• Experience with monitoring and alerting
• Thorough experience with Linux
• Experience with open-source communities