About the role
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to own and drive the API platform for SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE). You will define the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of a cloud-native SSE platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and high-performing.
As a hands-on leader, you will design distributed systems and APIs that enable secure, Zero Trust access to applications, SaaS, and enterprise resources, while mentoring a global team and driving engineering excellence across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the API as a product — defining technical direction, scalability strategy, and long-term evolution
- Design and build high-performance, secure, production-grade Go services
- Architect distributed systems that balance performance, reliability, and extensibility
- Translate business and product requirements into clean, scalable system designs
- Lead code reviews and elevate engineering quality across the team
- Drive secure coding practices and enforce API security standards
- Guide CI/CD/CT best practices and improve developer productivity
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to a distributed offshore Go engineering team
- Ensure API documentation is accurate, clear, and continuously maintained
- Manage the API lifecycle end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
What We’re Looking For
- 12–15 years of backend engineering experience with strong API ownership
- Deep expertise in Go (Golang) with significant production experience
- Proven experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Extensive experience in database design, performance tuning, and large-scale data systems (SQL/NoSQL)
- Strong understanding of API security, authentication, and secure coding principles
- Experience in SaaS environments and cloud-native architectures
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on
- Experience working across time zones and mentoring engineers
- Strong communication skills and pragmatic decision-making ability
- Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS)
- Experience building and scaling cloud-delivered networking services is a plus
- Champion AI-first engineering practices to improve developer productivity and quality
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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.
