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Job Title: Distinguished Engineer - Data Architect
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer- Data Architect to design and build the data foundation for our AI-driven security platform. In this role, you will own the architectural blueprint and core implementation of our data strategy, transforming massive streams of high-velocity network traffic logs, customer configurations, and security alerts into high-performance, ML-ready data fabrics.
As part of a lean, elite three-person Data & AI team, you will serve as the ultimate technical authority on data scale, streaming architecture, multi-tenant security, and cost-efficient storage systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect the Core Data Platform: Design, implement, and evolve a unified blueprint for streaming and batch data processing capable of ingesting, normalizing, and storing petabyte-scale, high-velocity security telemetry.
- Enable AI & Advanced Analytics: Partner directly with the Lead AI Engineer to architect the underlying storage, retrieval systems, and feature stores—including optimal vector database structures and data lakehouse layers—required for low-latency AI inference and training.
- Enforce Zero-Trust Data Governance: Architect strict multi-tenant isolation, data privacy guardrails, and compliance controls directly into the data fabric to protect sensitive customer network configurations and logs.
- Optimize Economics & Performance: Drive infrastructure cost-efficiency and performance tuning across data processing engines, storage layers, and cloud infrastructure, balancing ultra-low latency requirements with predictable cost scaling.
- Lead by Example: Write clean, foundational, high-performance code for critical infrastructure components, setting the standard for engineering excellence within the team.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Experience: 12+ years of data engineering and architecture experience, with a proven track record of designing production systems handling massive, high-throughput streaming datasets (e.g., networking logs, telemetry, or real-time event streams).
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep, authoritative knowledge of distributed processing and streaming engines (e.g., Apache Flink, Spark, Kafka, Pulsar) and modern lakehouse architectures (e.g., Iceberg, Delta Lake).
- Hybrid Storage Architecture: Mastery of polyglot persistence, spanning traditional relational databases, NoSQL, Columnar engines (e.g., ClickHouse, DuckDB), and Vector databases (e.g., Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone).
- Security & Infrastructure: Strong fundamentals in secure data architectures, network topography, encryption-at-rest/in-transit, containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Mindset: A rare combination of visionary architecture and hands-on execution. You thrive in ultra-lean teams, enjoy writing core code, and possess the pragmatism to build for immediate needs while planning for massive scale.
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Skills Required
- 12+ years of data engineering and architecture experience designing production systems for high-throughput streaming datasets
- Deep expertise with distributed processing and streaming engines (Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Kafka, Pulsar)
- Experience with modern lakehouse architectures (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake)
- Mastery of polyglot persistence including relational, NoSQL, columnar engines (ClickHouse, DuckDB) and vector databases (Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone)
- Strong fundamentals in secure data architectures, multi-tenant isolation, data privacy guardrails and compliance controls
- Cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Proven ability to optimize infrastructure economics and performance tuning across data processing and storage layers
- Hands-on coding ability to write clean, high-performance core infrastructure code
- Experience architecting feature stores and vector database structures for low-latency AI inference and training
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, mental-health support, and wellness programs are part of the package. Feedback suggests coverage breadth is a dependable component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays and sick time, and bereavement leave are described alongside flexible or remote options. Feedback suggests ample time away meaningfully supports balance.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) and core financial protections such as life and disability insurance are included. Feedback suggests these fundamentals meet standard expectations for many.
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What We Do
SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.
