Principal Engineer Software - Storage (Chronosphere)
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services that process high-volume telemetry data
- Develop systems for ingestion, storage, indexing, and querying of time-series and event data
- Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of distributed systems
- Collaborate with frontend teams to design clean, efficient APIs
- Contribute to data modeling strategies for high-cardinality observability workloads
- Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions
- Improve system observability (we use our own product heavily) and reliability
- Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards
Requirements
You will Work on technically challenging problems with some of the largest distributed systems in the world
Directly impact how engineering teams debug production systems
Help shape the architecture of a rapidly scaling platform
Collaborate with deeply technical teammates and customers
Operating systems that process large-scale real-world production traffic
Qualifications
- 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
Benefits
The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Pay
$147,000.00 - $237,500.00/yr
Schedule
Remote