Jobs / Palo Alto Networks

Principal Platform Engineer, Observability (CIPE)

Palo Alto Networks · Santa Clara, CA, United States
Santa Clara, CA, United StatesExp: 7+ yrs147,000-237,500 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
147,000-237,500 USD/yearly
Location
Santa Clara, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and evolve their observability platform, focusing on integrating AI technologies and open source observability tools.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering or SRE experience.
  • Hands-on experience with observability systems.
  • Expertise with OpenTelemetry and its components.
  • Experience with Prometheus-compatible metrics and Alertmanager.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed tracing systems.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience.
  • Strong Python engineering skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and lead the evolution of a modern observability platform.
  • Define architecture standards for telemetry collection and processing.
  • Build scalable systems for metrics, distributed tracing, and log aggregation.
  • Establish best practices for instrumentation across services and platforms.
  • Lead adoption and standardization of OpenTelemetry.
  • Design and implement telemetry pipelines using OpenTelemetry Collector.
  • Architect metrics systems using Prometheus-compatible formats.
  • Build observability capabilities for Kubernetes environments.
  • Design and build AI-enabled observability workflows.

Skills

Argo CDFluxGoGrafanaHelmJaegerJavaKubernetesLinuxMakeNode.jsOpenTelemetryPrometheusPythonRustTerraform

Relocation

No