Principal Engineer, Software Developer Experience, Backend

Palo Alto Networks

. Directly impact how customers leverage observability for their infrastructure and services architecture .

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeRemote • California, Connecticut, Florida, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $147,000 - $237,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLGRPCJavaPythonRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

A description of our employee benefits may be found here .

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoJavaPythonRustAI infrastructureMLAPIsRESTgRPCGraphQL

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationautonomyjudgmenteffective communicationsupportive environmentcross-functional teamworkproject ownershipproblem-solvingadaptability