Sr. Principal/Architect Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere)

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

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting‑edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Job Summary

Chronosphere

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. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including DoorDash, affirm, and Zillow.

About the role

Our product is an industrial‑scale software‑as‑a‑service observability platform. You will drive implementation and delivery of high‑impact features within Control, the team building Chronosphere’s telemetry control, traffic shaping, and cost control system. This system gives customers fine‑grained control over their observability data, complexity, and noise while preserving signal and performance.

You will collaborate directly with Product, Design, and Engineering peers to build intuitive capabilities that empower customers to shape telemetry traffic, manage high‑cardinality data, and enforce usage policies and budgets across their organization, operating at data volumes spanning hundreds of millions of telemetry events per second.

You will

• Design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services, including rule evaluation, policy enforcement, advanced optimizations, and real‑time usage insights, using Go on Kubernetes / GCP.
• Build scalable systems for telemetry shaping and cost control, such as ingest policies, aggregation, sampling policies, utility scores & recommendations, and usage‑based controls.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver customer‑facing experiences that make it easy to understand telemetry cost drivers and take safe, effective action.
• Own the operational quality of what you ship: instrumentation, alerting, debugging, incident response, and performance tuning for production workloads.
• Collaborate across product, design, platform, infrastructure, and developer experience teams to integrate Control decisions into the broader ingestion, query, and storage ecosystem.

What you will achieve

In the first month, you will build a deep understanding of Chronosphere’s platform and begin contributing to Control features. You will learn how customers use observability at scale, how telemetry flows through the system, and where telemetry shaping and cost control create leverage.

Within 90 days, you will have shipped several impactful enhancements to Control and contributed to designs shaping the direction of the system. You will become a go‑to person in one or more areas, such as rule evaluation, cardinality controls, usage insights, or production reliability.

Qualifications

You have

• Curiosity and motivation to learn deep, complex domains.
• A proven track record building high‑quality, scalable systems, including experience working on complex, performance‑sensitive services in production.
• Strong skills in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust. Knowing a specific language isn’t important; what matters is fluency built through real‑world engineering work.
• A habit of seeking feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when you need it.
• The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery (plan, gather requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, and execute with operational maturity).
• Excitement for working on a product engineering team and building features that create direct customer value, especially around cost control, optimizations, and reliability.
• A flexible, collaborative working style. We’re a small team operating in a rapidly evolving space, and we’re looking for people who will help build a supportive, high‑trust environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non‑sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com‑missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [e-mail].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.