Backend Engineer, Developer Experience & AI Observability

Palo Alto Networks; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 147,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Chronosphere is our observability platform partner, is seeking experienced engineers to own the technical roadmap and ship features for mission-critical observability. You’ll design AI-powered workflows and help scale complex systems in a remote-friendly environment.

You will work with Go/Java/Python/Rust, design scalable APIs, and collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in one or more backend languages (Go, Java, Python, Rust).
• Experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude) in day-to-day development.
• Experience building and operating highly available systems in production.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) for scale.
• Experience with cross functional partners.
• Experience owning and executing projects from inception to delivery.
• Ability to work autonomously with good judgement on when to push forward and when to ask for help.
• Collaborative working style and remote-first mindset.
• Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Directly impact how customers leverage observability for their infrastructure and services architecture.
• Leverage AI infrastructure to build innovative capabilities for our customers.
• Design experiences and systems for contextualizing 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.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Rust

AI coding assistants

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

API design

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomy

Tools

Cursor

Claude

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Chronosphere is our observability platform partner, is seeking experienced engineers to own the technical roadmap and ship features for mission-critical observability. You’ll design AI-powered workflows and help scale complex systems in a remote-friendly environment.

You will work with Go/Java/Python/Rust, design scalable APIs, and collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions.