Remote Senior Backend Architect for Observability Platform

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking experienced engineers for the Chronosphere observability platform. You will contribute to building fast, reliable user experiences for developers, with emphasis on visibility, troubleshooting, and scalable data visualization.

Join a cross-functional team and help advance a modern, containerized stack on cloud providers (AWS, GCP). The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and delivering impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• The ability to own projects from inception to delivery either independently or as a technical leader of a small team, all while collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship enhancements and new features to core product capabilities using Go, deployed on Kubernetes across cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP
• Design, implement, and deliver complex product features that address key customer pain points, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams—including product management, design, and engineering—to ensure alignment and impact throughout the development lifecycle.
• Work closely with talented engineers in a fast-paced environment that fosters accelerated learning, continuous growth, and career development
• Think beyond implementation—challenge assumptions, refine designs based on user feedback, and take ownership of delivering polished, effective user experiences.
• Lead development of user experiences that surface critical insights at a glance, streamline troubleshooting, and reduce cognitive load during high-pressure situations.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to turn complex data into actionable, easy-to-understand visualizations and workflows.
• Share accountability with other engineers across the company to build and maintain automated tests, tooling, and deployment infrastructure that improve efficiency.
• Mentor your colleagues in engineering reliable, performant, high-quality user experiences through direct mentorship, program development, and engineering infrastructure improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

System-level languages

Ownership

Problem solving

Collaboration

Go

C++/Java/C#/Rust

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking experienced engineers for the Chronosphere observability platform. You will contribute to building fast, reliable user experiences for developers, with emphasis on visibility, troubleshooting, and scalable data visualization.

Join a cross-functional team and help advance a modern, containerized stack on cloud providers (AWS, GCP). The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and delivering impact in a fast-paced environment.