Principal Engineer Software - Developer Experience, Backend (Chronosphere)

Qualifications

• You will
• 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
• You have
• 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
• Location: US - Remote
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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.