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Principal Engineer, Software Developer Experience, Backend

Developer RelationsDeveloper RelationsFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 10,001+H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | Florida | New York | Texas

Posted

79 days ago

Salary

$147K - $237.5K / year

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Principal Engineer, Software Developer Experience, Backend

Palo Alto Networks

• Directly impact how customers leverage observability for their infrastructure and services architecture • Leverage AI infrastructure like LLMs, ML to build innovative capabilities for our customers • Design experiences and systems for contextualizing large amounts of telemetry data • Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform • Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers • Improve our own system observability (we use our own product heavily) • Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems • Mentor engineers and help maintain our engineering standards

Job Requirements

  • Strong experience in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Rust)
  • Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude) as part of day-to-day software development
  • Experience building and operating highly available systems in production
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience designing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) for scale
  • Experience working effectively with cross functional partners
  • Experience owning and executing projects from inception to delivery
  • Experience working with a high degree of autonomy with good judgement on when to push forward and when to ask for help
  • An effective collaborative working style and willingness to build and maintain a positive and supportive environment
  • An ability to operate effectively in a remote first environment

Benefits

  • A description of our employee benefits may be found here .

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