Principal Engineer Software, Dev & Production Infrastructure (Chronosphere) at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, WA
$147,000–$237,500from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A principal-level infrastructure engineering role at Chronosphere (a Palo Alto Networks company) covering one or both of two tracks: keeping a large-scale global observability platform reliable and performant, or building the internal developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and ephemeral environments that support the engineering organization. Either way, the position involves owning major technical initiatives, setting multi-year architectural standards, and mentoring across teams. Suits engineers with deep distributed systems and cloud-native experience.
Principal level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,650 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,200–5,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This posting covers two distinct tracks within the same org — Production Engineering (reliability & scale) and Dev Infrastructure (developer velocity & platforms) — and states candidates will be considered for both during a unified interview process. The extracted skills reflect the union of hard requirements across both tracks.
The 7+ years of backend language experience is stated in the Required Qualifications section with Go named as the primary language; alternatives (Python, Java, C++, C#, Rust) are explicitly listed as acceptable substitutes.
AWS and GCP are listed together as interchangeable cloud platforms in the Required Qualifications; AWS is used as the primary name with GCP as the alternative.
Terraform and CI/CD appear specifically in the Dev Infrastructure pillar's responsibilities section rather than in the unified Required Qualifications block, so they are treated as preferred rather than hard gates.
AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Claude) appear under Preferred Qualifications and are treated accordingly.
The alternative occupation runner-up (15-1244) reflects the Production Engineering pillar's operational/reliability focus, but the dominant signal across both tracks is building and shipping software (Go services, tooling, IaC), making 15-1252 the primary classification.
The role is explicitly Principal-level in title and scope (org-wide standards, 1–3 year architectural horizon, cross-org technical leadership), supporting a Principal seniority classification rather than Senior.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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