Principal Engineer Software, Infrastructure (Chronosphere)

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 The Team 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. Job Summary We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to build developer tooling that enables developer velocity and reliability for the entire engineering organization. Our team owns the full end-to-end development lifecycle, from local development tools, CI/CD, dynamic testing environments, deployments, and releases. You’ll be working with the latest cloud-native technologies as you build an infrastructure platform that enables the engineering organization to deliver observability for some of the largest technology companies. Qualifications Key Responsibilities Architect & Build: Design and maintain high-scale developer tooling and backend services that improve productivity and reliability across a distributed cloud environment. We operate in a 100% modern, cloud-native ecosystem, and you will work exclusively with ephemeral infrastructure and containerized microservices. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Treat infrastructure as a first-class citizen. You will define, deploy, and manage entire environments using declarative IaC (Terraform), ensuring our platform is reproducible and version-controlled. Drive Systemic Quality: Identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) through architectural changes or advanced tooling. Scale & Reliability: Ensure our infrastructure remains resilient under massive traffic loads while optimizing for performance, cost-efficiency, and near-real-time telemetry processing. Strategic Leadership & Mentorship: Define platform standards and reference architectures that span a 1–3 year horizon, balancing feature velocity with long-term technical debt. Act as the glue across teams, consulting on infrastructure best practices and up-leveling the organization through mentorship. Required Qualifications 8 years of relevant experience with the following: Foundational Technical Proficiency: Strong experience in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, or Rust). We value fluency and the ability to write modular, testable code over knowing a specific syntax. Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, or Rust). We prioritize the abil ... (truncated, view full listing at source)