Senior Principal Software Architect - Storage

Palo Alto Networks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly skilled software engineer to join Chronosphere, our observability platform. You will drive implementation and delivery of high-impact features within Control, building telemetry control and cost-management capabilities at scale.

You’ll work with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape telemetry traffic and enforce budgets, handling hundreds of millions of events per second.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-quality, scalable systems in production.
• Strong fluency in systems languages (Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust).
• Ability to own projects end-to-end from inception to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services using Go on Kubernetes/GCP.
• Build scalable telemetry shaping and cost-control systems.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing experiences.
• Own operational quality: instrumentation, alerting, debugging, and incident response.
• Integrate Control decisions into the broader data ingestion and storage ecosystem.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Rust

Kubernetes

GCP

Performance-sensitive systems

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly skilled software engineer to join Chronosphere, our observability platform. You will drive implementation and delivery of high-impact features within Control, building telemetry control and cost-management capabilities at scale.

You’ll work with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape telemetry traffic and enforce budgets, handling hundreds of millions of events per second.