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Palo Alto Networks
Sr. Principal/Architect Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere)
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What they do
A Storage Engineer evaluates, implements and maintains storage hardware and software, including storage subsystems, switches, and cabling. Manages system backups, monitors system availability, develops and maintains documentation related to storage. Resolves problems and establishes disaster recovery systems.
$146,554 / year median in the U.S.
-11% projected decline
Job Description
- Our Mission
- At Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life.
- Who We Are
- In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry.
- Job Summary
- Chronosphere
- Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world.
- About the role
- Our product is an industrial-scale software-as-a-service observability platform.
- You will
- Design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services, including rule evaluation, policy enforcement, advanced optimizations, and real-time usage insights, using Go on Kubernetes / GCP.
- Build scalable systems for telemetry shaping and cost control, such as ingest policies, aggregation, sampling policies, utility scores & recommendations, and usage-based controls.
- Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing experiences that make it easy to understand telemetry cost drivers and take safe, effective action.
- Own the operational quality of what you ship: instrumentation, alerting, debugging, incident response, and performance tuning for production workloads.
- Collaborate across product, design, platform, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to integrate Control decisions into the broader ingestion, query, and storage ecosystem.
- What you will achieve
- In the first month, you will build a deep understanding of Chronosphere's platform and begin contributing to Control features.
- Qualifications
- You have
- Curiosity and motivation to learn deep, complex domains.
- A proven track record building high-quality, scalable systems, including experience working on complex, performance-sensitive services in production.
- Strong skills in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust. Knowing a specific language isn't important; what matters is fluency built through real-world engineering work.
- A habit of seeking feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when you need it.
- The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery (plan, gather requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, and execute with operational maturity).
- Excitement for working on a product engineering team and building features that create direct customer value, especially around cost control, optimizations, and reliability.
- A flexible, collaborative working style. We're a small team operating in a rapidly evolving space, and we're looking for people who will help build a supportive, high-trust environment.
- Compensation Disclosure
- The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location.
- Our Commitment
- We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo.
Benefits
- Dental Insurance