Senior Principal Engineer – Go / Golang experience is a must

SonicWall is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead the technical vision and execution for the SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE) platform. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and platforms, with deep expertise in Go/C/C++/Rust, concurrency, and system design. The role requires a strong knowledge of networking and system internals, as well as experience designing cloud-native architectures and scalable APIs/platforms.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Diverse environment
• Active security solutions in 100+ countries