Senior Principal Architect Engineer Software, Storage

Palo Alto Networks

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TL;DR · Senior Principal Architect Engineer Software, Storage

Sr. Principal/Architect Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere) joins the Control team to develop an industrial-scale software-as-a-service observability platform. This role focuses on building telemetry control, traffic shaping, and cost control systems to manage high-cardinality data and enforce usage policies across environments processing hundreds of millions of events per second. You will design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services while ensuring operational quality through instrumentation, alerting, and performance tuning. The work involves creating tools for ingest policies, aggregation, and sampling to help customers manage costs and noise. Key technical requirements include proficiency in systems languages such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust, along with experience working within Kubernetes and GCP environments. You will collaborate with product and design teams to deliver features that provide clear insights into telemetry cost drivers.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services using Go on Kubernetes and GCP.
  • Build scalable systems for telemetry shaping, cost control, and real-time usage insights.
  • Develop features for rule evaluation, policy enforcement, and advanced performance optimizations.
  • Partner with Product and Design teams to create intuitive customer-facing experiences for managing telemetry costs.
  • Manage the operational quality of production workloads through instrumentation, alerting, debugging, and performance tuning.
  • Integrate Control decisions into the broader ingestion, query, and storage ecosystem across multiple internal teams.
  • Own projects from inception to delivery by gathering requirements and executing with operational maturity.

What we're looking for

  • Proven track record of building high-quality, scalable systems and performance-sensitive services in production.
  • Proficiency in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
  • Ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery including planning, requirements gathering, and execution.
  • Experience with Go on Kubernetes and GCP for designing and implementing APIs and services.
  • Strong collaboration skills to work across product, design, infrastructure, and developer experience teams.
  • Commitment to operational quality including instrumentation, alerting, debugging, incident response, and performance tuning.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a focus on customer value and reliability.
  • Will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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