Principal Engineer Software, Dev & Production Infrastructure (Chronosphere)

Combined Principal-Level Leadership

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications
• Experience: 8–10+ years of relevant experience in high-scale infrastructure, production engineering, systems architecture, or developer platform roles.
• Language Agnosticism: 7 + years of experience in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust). We value modular, testable code over specific syntax knowledge, though Go is our primary language.
• Cloud-Native & Distributed Systems: 5 + years of deep expertise building and debugging systems that deal with CAP theorem trade-offs, eventual consistency, and distributed tracing. Robust experience working with AWS or GCP and navigating Kubernetes clusters.
• Systems Expertise: Deep knowledge of Linux internals, process management, resource isolation, and networking protocols (OSI model, load balancing, service meshes).
• Execution & Quality: A proven track record of estimating complex work effectively, debugging distributed architectures via logs/traces, and proactively identifying design edge cases.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Commitment to AI-Native Engineering: Experience or active interest in using next-gen AI coding assistants and agentic platforms to accelerate engineering velocity and eliminate boilerplate work.
• Experience with AI-enabled agentic development workflows (e.g., building, deploying, or developing alongside autonomous AI agents, multi-agent frameworks, and LLM-driven orchestration tools).
• Active engagement or experience with open-source communities.
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• Compensation Disclosure
• The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
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