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Principal Engineer, Software Developer Experience, Backend
Location
California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | Florida | New York | Texas
Posted
27 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
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