Principal Engineer Software - Storage...

We are looking for an experienced product driven engineer to help our customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their systems at scale. Our platform ingests and analyzes high-volume telemetry data - metrics, logs, traces, and events - enabling our customers to understand system behavior, improve reliability, and reduce MTTR across modern cloud-native environments.

We're looking for a senior engineer who can help design and build the core systems that power our observability platform. You'll work on highly scalable distributed systems that ingest, store, query, and process massive volumes of telemetry data in near real time. This role requires strong systems thinking, API design skills, and experience building reliable systems., + 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)

• A strong sense of ownership and can independently own projects from inception to delivery

• An effective collaborative working style. We're a small team working in a rapidly evolving space, and we're looking for people that will help build a positive, supportive environment

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 (https://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr

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