Remote Senior Principal Infra Architect – Scalable Distributed Systems

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 184,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to ensure our platform is scalable, reliable, and battle-tested. You will own distributed systems projects end‑to‑end, build internal tools to improve developer productivity, and mentor junior engineers.

This role uses Go to build high‑scale services and runs on Kubernetes across GCP and AWS, with global deployments and continuous optimization. Remote-friendly, cross‑geography collaboration is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or production‑focused engineering.
• Ability to own projects from inception to delivery.
• Experience building high‑scale systems on cloud platforms.
• Mentoring and growing peers in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong Linux and monitoring / observability experience.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex distributed systems problems at large scale.
• Scale infrastructure and architecture to meet platform needs.
• Use Go to build scalable, reliable distributed services.
• Build on Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS within the architecture stack.
• Operate large‑scale distributed systems globally.
• Own projects end‑to‑end with planning and collaboration with Product.
• Mentor and up‑level peers within the team.

Skills

Go

Linux

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Monitoring

Job description

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to ensure our platform is scalable, reliable, and battle-tested. You will own distributed systems projects end‑to‑end, build internal tools to improve developer productivity, and mentor junior engineers.

This role uses Go to build high‑scale services and runs on Kubernetes across GCP and AWS, with global deployments and continuous optimization. Remote-friendly, cross‑geography collaboration is expected.