Principal Software Engineer (Frontend, Developer Experience)
Palo Alto Networks
United States Posted October 9, 2026
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Job Description
Join Palo Alto Networks as a Principal Software Engineer in the Developer Experience group. You will be responsible for crafting intuitive, fast, and reliable user experiences for our industrial-scale Software-as-a-Service observability platform. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to build interfaces that help developers navigate complex environments with petabytes of telemetry data. You will also mentor colleagues, contribute to product direction, and evolve the overall platform architecture. Enjoy a range of benefits including healthcare, wellness programs, professional development, financial perks, and flexible time off.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering peers to build intuitive user interfaces that help developers navigate complex environments.
- Drive the development of user experiences that surface critical insights, streamline troubleshooting, and reduce cognitive load during high-pressure situations.
- Mentor colleagues in engineering reliable, performant, high-quality user experiences through direct mentorship and engineering infrastructure improvements.
- Independently own projects from inception to delivery while collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers
- A habit of seeking feedback to improve your work and the ability to ask for help when you need it
- A flexible, collaborative working style in a rapidly evolving space
- Curiosity and motivation to learn deep, complex domains
- Experience using observability tools and/or working with large-scale distributed systems to empathize with our customers and understand their observability challenges
- Fluency in building products with TypeScript and React
Required Skills
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