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.
- Lead the design and architecture of scalable, resilient distributed systems and data plane services.
- Drive end-to-end feature delivery from requirements through deployment and production support.
- Define and review system architecture, APIs, and data models to ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Optimize networking, traffic management, and security capabilities for high-throughput environments.
- Partner across Product, Platform, Security, and Engineering teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
- Lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence and operational best practices.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, networking, or platform development.
- Strong expertise in system design, distributed architecture, API design, and database technologies.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, C, or C++ with a strong focus on performance and scalability.
- Proven track record of driving end-to-end delivery of complex technical solutions.
- Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking protocols, and production-scale systems.
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, architectural influence, and mentoring capabilities.
- Ownership mindset with a focus on quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Experience with data plane architectures, DPDK, eBPF, or high-performance packet processing.
- Expertise in load balancing, proxying, NAT, tunneling, and network security technologies.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, observability, and distributed tracing.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices.
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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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Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in Go/C/C++/Rust and system design
- Strong knowledge of networking protocols and system internals
- Proven experience designing cloud-native architectures
- Deep expertise in secure access and Zero Trust architectures
- Proven track record of org-level technical leadership
SonicWall Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SonicWall and has not been reviewed or approved by SonicWall.
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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.
