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About the Role
SonicWall is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own the Python side of our Content Filtering Service platform. This covers two components: a web application (Django + FastAPI + Vue.js) that lets users look up and submit URL category rating change requests, and a collection of backend scripts and data pipelines that keep our rating databases synchronized, ingest threat intelligence feeds, and automate customer communications. These two components share common libraries and interact with the same databases, so you will work across both — the web product and the operational pipelines — rather than owning just one.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve the Django/DRF and FastAPI backends, including authentication, request validation, and API versioning.
- Own the PostgreSQL schema and query layer for the URL rating change workflow.
- Maintain and extend the suite of data pipeline scripts: threat feed ingestion, database synchronization, customer submission processing, and scheduled exports.
- Improve the reliability of scheduled pipelines, including error handling, alerting, and operational monitoring.
- Maintain and extend the Vue.js frontend, implementing new UI features and internationalisation changes as needed.
- Drive test coverage across both the web application and the data pipelines.
- Own the Docker-based development environment and RPM-based production deployment process.
- Maintain clear documentation so the platform can be understood and operated by the broader team.
- Collaborate with both local team and asynchronously with the US-based team.
Requirements
- Strong Python development skills, including production experience with Django (including Django REST Framework) and/or FastAPI.
- Solid PostgreSQL knowledge: schema design, query optimization, connection management.
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and scheduled jobs in a production environment — not just web apps.
- Working knowledge of Vue.js (or another modern frontend framework) sufficient to implement and debug UI features independently.
- Familiarity with Pydantic, REST API design, and API versioning strategies.
- Experience with Linux server environments, systemd-managed services, and cron scheduling.
- Comfortable with Docker for development and shell-based deployment scripting.
- Good written English for remote, asynchronous collaboration.
Nice to have:
- Experience with SQL Server / pyodbc in addition to PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with binary UDP protocol clients in Python.
- Background in threat intelligence data pipelines, web content filtering, or security data operations.
- Experience with RabbitMQ or similar message queues from a Python client perspective.
Education & Experience
- At least 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent experience preferred. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
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Skills Required
- Strong Python development skills including production experience with Django and/or FastAPI
- Experience with Django REST Framework (DRF)
- PostgreSQL knowledge: schema design, query optimization, connection management
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and scheduled jobs in production
- Working knowledge of Vue.js (or another modern frontend framework) to implement and debug UI features
- Familiarity with Pydantic, REST API design, and API versioning strategies
- Experience with Linux server environments, systemd-managed services, and cron scheduling
- Comfortable with Docker for development and shell-based deployment scripting
- Ownership of Docker-based development environment and RPM-based production deployment process
- Good written English for remote, asynchronous collaboration
- Education/experience: At least 8 years with a Bachelor's; or 6 years with a Master's; or PhD with 3 years; or equivalent experience
- Experience improving reliability, error handling, alerting, and operational monitoring for pipelines
- Drive test coverage across web application and data pipelines
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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.
