Senior Principal Architect Software Engineer, Storage

Palo Alto Networks

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TL;DR · Senior Principal Architect Software Engineer, Storage

The Sr. Principal/Architect Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere) joins the Control team to develop telemetry control, traffic shaping, and cost control systems for an industrial-scale software-as-a-service observability platform. You will design, implement, and test enhancements to Control APIs and services, focusing on rule evaluation, policy enforcement, and real-time usage insights. Daily responsibilities include building scalable systems for telemetry shaping, ingest policies, and sampling policies while owning operational quality through instrumentation, alerting, and performance tuning. You will utilize Go on Kubernetes and GCP, though proficiency in C++, Java, C#, or Rust is also valued. The role solves the technical challenge of managing high-cardinality data and enforcing usage budgets across organizations processing hundreds of millions of telemetry events per second.

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 ingest policies.
  • Develop customer-facing experiences to help users understand telemetry cost drivers and take action.
  • Own operational quality through instrumentation, alerting, debugging, and performance tuning for production workloads.
  • Integrate Control decisions into the broader ingestion, query, and storage ecosystem.
  • Manage high-cardinality data and enforce usage policies across organizations.
  • 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.
  • Strong fluency in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
  • Ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery, including planning, requirement gathering, and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and testing enhancements to APIs and services using Go on Kubernetes or GCP.
  • Ability to own operational quality, including instrumentation, alerting, debugging, incident response, and performance tuning.
  • Curiosity and motivation to learn deep, complex domains.
  • Flexible and collaborative working style to support a high-trust team environment.
  • Ability to work in a remote, hybrid, and geographically distributed team.

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