Senior Principal Architect - 12+Years of experience
Quick Summary
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.
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.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →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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Listing Details
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
- First seen
- May 18, 2026
- Last seen
- August 14, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 65
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 31%
- Scored at
- July 23, 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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