Senior Principal Architect

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Milpitas, CA, USA
In-Office
Security • Cybersecurity
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 TwitterLinkedInFacebook and Instagram.

Responsibilities 

  • Responsible for designing solutions from scratch
  • Responsible for handling customer escalation issues
  • Break down complex engineering problems and rapidly develop prototypes
  • Work with the product management team to define new features
  • Understand customer needs and help improve the product portfolio

Requirements: 

  • Strong C programming experience
  • Hands-on experience with TCP/IP, UDP, and other networking protocols
  • Hands-on experience with Firewall, NAT, and related technologies
  • Experience with multi-core and multi-threaded programming is a strong plus
  • Ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues
  • Familiarity with Agile Software Development Methodologies
  • Experience with virtualization infrastructure is a big plus

Education and Experience: 

  • At least 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 6 years’ experience; or equivalent experience preferred   
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

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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.

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The Company
Milpitas, CA
1,832 Employees
Year Founded: 1991

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.

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