Lead Backend Engineer, AI Observability & Evaluation

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

We are building AI Observability and Evaluation capabilities on Chronosphere’s platform. You’ll translate AI observability needs into scalable backend systems and cohesive developer workflows, shaping the roadmap from

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong experience in backend languages (Go, Java, Python, Rust)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) for scale
• Experience building and operating highly available systems in production
• Experience working with cross functional partners
• Experience owning and executing projects from inception to delivery
• Ability to work autonomously with good judgement

Responsibilities

• Build backend capabilities that help observe and evaluate AI models, agents, and RAG applications
• Design systems for testing, measurement, and benchmarking of AI agents and applications
• Build scalable APIs and data processing systems that contextualize AI telemetry and evaluation results
• Help shape the technical roadmap and architecture for AI Observability and Evaluation
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and customers to deliver integrated features
• Improve system observability using our own product
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems powering AI Observability and Evaluation
• Mentor engineers and uphold engineering standards

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Rust

Tools

REST API design

gRPC

GraphQL

Job 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.

We are building AI Observability and Evaluation capabilities on Chronosphere’s platform. You’ll translate AI observability needs into scalable backend systems and cohesive developer workflows, shaping the roadmap from