Sr Principal Architect Engineer Software Backend, Alerting (Chronosphere)

Our Mission

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Who We Are

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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 worlds most innovative brands including DoorDash Affirm and Zillow.

Job Summary

The #1 reason organizations invest in an observability tool is to know when something is broken so they can fix it. This has been the case for over 25 years. The Alerting Platform & Workflows team focuses on providing a reliable fast and intuitive experience for configuring receiving and responding to alerts.

Our userssoftware developersneed to troubleshoot issues that impact their own users. We build products that help suggest possible next steps to investigate narrow down possibilities and quickly rootcause issues. We are seeking experienced engineers who can craft intuitive fast and reliable user experiences empowering software engineers to diagnose and resolve incidents with confidence.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Design implement and ship enhancements and new features to core product capabilities using Go deployed on Kubernetes across cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP

• Design implement and deliver complex product features that address key customer pain points collaborating closely with cross-functional teamsincluding product management design and engineeringto ensure alignment and impact throughout the development lifecycle.

• Work closely with talented engineers in a fast-paced environment that fosters accelerated learning continuous growth and career development

• Think beyond implementationchallenge assumptions refine designs based on user feedback and take ownership of delivering polished effective user experiences.

• Lead development of user experiences that surface critical insights at a glance streamline troubleshooting and reduce cognitive load during high-pressure situations.

• Collaborate closely with product managers designers and other engineers to turn complex data into actionable easy-to-understand visualizations and workflows.

• Share accountability with other engineers across the company to build and maintain automated tests tooling and deployment infrastructure that improve efficiency.

• Mentor your colleagues in engineering reliable performant high-quality user experiences through direct mentorship program development and engineering infrastructure improvements.

Required Qualifications

• The ability to own projects from inception to delivery either independently or as a technical leader of a small team all while collaborating with product managers UX designers and other engineers.

• Experience in working with large scale distributed systems

• A passion for solving complex problems and ability to empathize with customers

• The curiosity and motivation to learn deep complex domain areas

• The habit to seek feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when you need it

• A flexible collaborative working style. Were a small team working in a rapidly evolving space and were looking for people that will help build a positive supportive environment

• Fluency in a system level language such as Go C Java C# or Rust. Knowing a specific language isnt important; what matters is that youve become fluent in one by spending a lot of time on the types of projects where these languages are used

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.

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