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# Sr. Principal/Architect - Infrastructure/Production Engineering (Chronosphere)

- **Company:** Palo Alto Networks
- **Location:** Jacksonville, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $183,600 - $297,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Application Services, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Linux, Distributed Systems, Open Source Technology, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Golang
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/5A145BA3F41942579BAD94238D1A6770/job/

## About the Role

* 10+ years in infrastructure or production-focused engineering roles.
 * Ability to own projects from inception to delivery.
 * Experience building high-scale systems and sophisticated application services.
 * A passion for growing and mentoring peers.
 * Experience with Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust.
 * Experience operating Kubernetes clusters.
 * Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale on cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
 * Experience with monitoring and alerting.
 * Thorough experience with Linux., * Experience with open-source communities.

## Description

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help ensure all components in our platform are optimized and battle-tested, so we can push our resources as far as they can go.

This person has a passion for developing internal tools and platforms that are simple and easy to use, improving developer productivity across the company., * Solve complex distributed systems problems at the largest scales in the world.

 * Scale our infrastructure and architecture to meet the needs of the platform and its engineers.
 * Use Go to build highly scalable and reliable distributed systems.
 * Build on top of our architecture stack using Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS.
 * Operate large-scale distributed systems globally.
 * Own projects from inception to delivery, including planning, requirements gathering, and collaboration with Product.
 * Mentor and up-level peers, helping junior engineers grow.