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 an exceptional Senior Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision and execution for the SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE) platform. In this role, you will drive the evolution of a cloud-native Security Service Edge (SSE) platform that delivers secure, Zero Trust access to applications, SaaS, and enterprise resources globally.
You will act as a technology leader and architect, shaping the long-term direction of systems powering capabilities such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), secure web gateway, VPN-as-a-Service, and policy-driven access control, enabling enterprises to transition to modern, cloud-delivered security architectures.
What You’ll Do
- Define and drive platform architecture, technical vision, and long-term system evolution.
- Lead design of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems with high scalability and resilience.
- Own and evolve API and platform strategy across multiple teams
- Drive cross-team technical alignment, architecture reviews, and engineering standards
- Solve complex scalability, reliability, and performance challenges at scale
- Partner with product, security, and leadership teams to shape platform direction.
- Mentor senior engineers and build technical leadership capability across the organization.
- Champion AI-first engineering practices to improve developer productivity and quality
What You’ll Bring
- 12+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
- Deep expertise in Go/C/C++/Rust, concurrency, and system design.
- Strong knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS) and system internals.
- Proven experience designing cloud-native architectures and scalable APIs/platforms
Domain Leadership (Critical)
- Deep expertise in secure access and Zero Trust architectures, including:
- ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access)
- SSE / SASE platforms
- SWG, CASB, VPN-as-a-Service
Proven ability to design systems enforcing:
- Identity-based access (authentication & authorization)
- Device posture validation and continuous trust
- Policy-driven, least-privilege access at scale.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security challenges, threat models, and secure access patterns.
- Ability to translate domain expertise into platform abstractions, services, and API strategy
Leadership & AI-First Mindset
- Proven track record of org-level technical leadership and cross-team influence.
- Ability to drive long-term architecture strategy (3–5 years).
- Strong ability to define and scale AI-first engineering practices using tools like Copilot and Claude.
- Ensures AI-assisted development maintains high standards of correctness, security, and performance
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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
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.
