Principal Engineer Software - Storage, Integrations; Chronosphere

Position: Principal Engineer Software - Storage, Integrations (Chronosphere)
Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

About us 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. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours.  Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including Door Dash, Affirm, and Zillow.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced product driven engineer to help our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their systems  platform ingests and analyzes high-volume telemetry data — metrics, logs, traces, and events — enabling our customers to understand system behavior, improve reliability, and reduce MTTR across modern cloud-native environments. We’re looking for a senior engineer who can help design and build the core systems that power our observability platform.

You’ll work on highly scalable distributed systems that ingest, store, query, and process massive volumes of telemetry data in near real time. This role requires strong systems thinking, API design skills, and experience building reliable systems.

Qualifications You will

Work on technically challenging problems with some of the largest distributed systems in the world

Directly impact how engineering teams debug production systems

Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform

Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers

Operating systems that process large-scale real-world production traffic

What you will achieve

Design and build scalable backend services that process high-volume telemetry data Develop systems for ingestion, storage, indexing, and querying of time-series and event data Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems

Collaborate with frontend teams to design clean, efficient APIsContribute to data modeling strategies for high-cardinality observability workloads

Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions

Improve system observability (we use our own product heavily) and reliability

Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards

You have 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…