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design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration What
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.
About the Role
~1 min readWe’re looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to own and evolve the API that powers the control plane of our Zero Trust platform. This API is the central orchestration layer across a distributed system and is critical to product performance, security, and scalability. This is not a people-manager-only role. You will be a core Go contributor while setting architectural direction, raising engineering standards, and mentoring a distributed team. If you enjoy building high-scale APIs, care deeply about secure system design, and like leading through influence rather than hierarchy, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Own the API as a product — defining technical direction, scalability strategy, and long-term evolution
- →Design and build high-performance, secure, production-grade Go services
- →Architect distributed systems that balance performance, reliability, and extensibility
- →Translate business and product requirements into clean, scalable system designs
- →Lead code reviews and elevate engineering quality across the team
- →Drive secure coding practices and API security standards
- →Guide CI/CD/CT best practices and improve developer productivity
- →Mentor and provide technical leadership to a distributed offshore Go engineering team
- →Ensure API documentation is accurate, clear, and continuously maintained
- →Manage the API lifecycle end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- 12-15 years of backend engineering experience, with strong API ownership
- Deep expertise in Go (Golang) with significant production experience
- Proven experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Strong understanding of API security, authentication, and secure coding principles
- Experience in SaaS environments and cloud-native architectures
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on
- Experience working across time zones and mentoring remote engineers
- Strong communication skills and pragmatic decision-making ability
- Knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, and DNS
- Experience in building and scaling cloud-delivered networking services would be advantageous
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience
- Master’s degree with 8+ years; or PhD with 6+ years; or Equivalent practical experience
- 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.
Listing Details
- Posted
- March 6, 2026
- First seen
- March 26, 2026
- Last seen
- April 17, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 22
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 36%
- Scored at
- April 17, 2026
Signal breakdown
SonicWall Inc. is an American cybersecurity company offering a range of internet security appliances and services, including firewalls, VPNs, and cloud security, to protect businesses and enterprises from cyber threats.
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