Senior Principal Software Architect Observability (Remote)

Socket.dev; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, seeks a strong software engineer to drive Control feature delivery for its observability platform. You will shape telemetry data, manage costs, and collaborate with product and design to deliver intuitive customer experiences.

You will own production readiness, instrumentation, and performance tuning, working across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to ensure scalable, reliable services at scale.

Qualifications

• Curiosity and motivation to learn deep, complex domains.
• A proven track record building high‑quality, scalable systems in production.
• Strong skills in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
• A habit of seeking feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when needed.
• The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery.
• Excitement for working on a product engineering team delivering customer value in cost control and reliability.
• A flexible, collaborative working style in a fast-moving space.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services, using Go on Kubernetes / GCP.
• Build scalable telemetry shaping and cost-control systems with ingest policies and usage controls.
• Partner with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing experiences around telemetry cost drivers.
• Own operational quality: instrumentation, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate Control decisions into ingestion, query, and storage ecosystems.

Skills

Curiosity & learnability

Proven track record

Go

C++

Java

C#

Rust

System design

Production readiness

Communication & teamwork

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

GCP

Telemetry systems

Job description

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, seeks a strong software engineer to drive Control feature delivery for its observability platform. You will shape telemetry data, manage costs, and collaborate with product and design to deliver intuitive customer experiences.

You will own production readiness, instrumentation, and performance tuning, working across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to ensure scalable, reliable services at scale.