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

Location: Remote, with listed locations in New York City, New York, United States and Burbank, California, United States

Company

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, provides a software-as-a-service observability platform for controlling telemetry complexity, data volume, and infrastructure costs.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and test Control APIs and services for rule evaluation, policy enforcement, optimization, and real-time usage insights.
• Build scalable telemetry-shaping and cost-control systems, including ingest policies, aggregation, sampling, recommendations, and usage-based controls.
• Partner with Product and Design to create customer-facing experiences for understanding telemetry cost drivers and taking effective action.
• Own production quality through instrumentation, alerting, debugging, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Integrate Control decisions across ingestion, query, storage, platform, infrastructure, and developer experience systems.

Requirements

• Proven experience building high-quality, scalable, performance-sensitive production systems.
• Strong systems-programming skills in Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
• Ability to independently own projects from inception through delivery and operate with production maturity.
• Interest in complex technical domains, product engineering, cost control, optimization, and reliability.
• Collaborative working style and ability to work effectively with Product, Design, Engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role within the listed United States locations.
• Work in a small, collaborative, high-trust product engineering team.
• Employee benefits, restricted stock units, and a potential bonus may be included in the compensation package.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.