Principal API Engineer

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Location Type: Remote

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Position Overview

SonicWall is seeking a Principal API Engineer to lead the development of the control plane for its Zero Trust platform. This role involves architecting and owning the API layer that orchestrates activities across a distributed system, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security. The position requires hands-on coding, technical leadership, and mentorship of engineers, including a team of offshore Go developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead API as a Product: Drive the vision and strategy for the API layer.
• Architect and Own: Design, develop, and maintain the API layer for the Zero Trust platform.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, ensure high code quality, and contribute to platform scalability, security, and extensibility.
• Team Leadership: Lead a team of offshore Go developers, requiring strong communication and collaborative leadership skills, with flexibility for time zone differences.
• Collaboration: Work with engineers to establish a vision and execute a pragmatic plan.
• Security Focus: Ensure API security and lead the implementation of secure coding practices.
• Documentation: Create and maintain up-to-date API documentation.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to a growing engineering team.
• CI/CD/CT: Contribute opinions and expertise on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Testing pipelines.

Requirements

• Technical Expertise:
  • Deep expertise in API design.
  • Strong proficiency in Go programming.
  • Extensive experience with distributed systems.
  • Proven experience in SaaS application development.
  • Strong understanding of secure cloud-native design principles.
• Leadership & Collaboration:
  • Proven ability to translate business objectives into technical architecture.
  • Experience supporting the full API lifecycle: design, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Passion for collaborative development and cross-team mentorship.
  • Strong opinions (loosely held) on infrastructure, DevOps, and release pipelines.
  • Clear, structured thinking and excellent communication skills across different time zones.
• Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in leadership roles, including mentoring or managing distributed engineering teams.

Company Information

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with over 30 years of expertise, recognized as a leading partner-first company. We provide relentless security against sophisticated cyberattacks for increasingly remote, mobile, and cloud-enabled users. Our solutions enable organizations worldwide to build, scale, and manage security across cloud, hybrid, and traditional environments in real-time. With our own threat research center, we deliver purpose-built security solutions efficiently.

For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment. We provide equal 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 protected status.

We pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in over 100 countries.

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