Software Dev Staff Engineer
About this role
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.
We invite you to join our team in developing innovative network security management solutions for SonicWall's Network Security Manager (NSM), a centralized management and analytics platform within the SonicWall Unified Management (UM) ecosystem. In this role, you will help build secure and scalable software capabilities that integrate with SonicWall's Unified Management (UM) platform and Shared Services Platform (SSP) to meet the unique operational needs of enterprise customers, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) around the globe.
You will design and build cloud-native and on-premises microservices, RESTful APIs, real-time communication layers, and frontend components that power NSM's security policy management, device orchestration, and network visibility features. This role spans backend-first full-stack development and demands a security-first engineering mindset, strong Go proficiency, and the ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools responsibly and critically.
You will work as part of a globally distributed engineering team across India, the USA, and other development centers, collaborating cross-functionally with engineers, QA, and product teams to deliver high-quality features in an agile, fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build cloud-native microservices and REST APIs (Go-based)
- Lead end-to-end system design (architecture, APIs, data models)
- Develop secure communication using mTLS and certificate-based trust
- Build real-time systems (WebSockets, event-driven architecture)
- Ensure secure coding practices aligned with OWASP standards
- Implement observability (logging, tracing, metrics)
- Collaborate with global teams across engineering, QA, and product
- Use AI-assisted coding tools responsibly to improve productivity and quality
What You Bring
- Minimum 6 to 8 Year's Software Development with a strong focus on backend development.
- Strong experience in Golang, microservices, and distributed systems
- Expertise in system design and scalable SaaS architectures
- Hands-on with REST APIs, gRPC, and event-driven systems
- Experience with MongoDB and performance optimization
- Solid understanding of network security fundamentals
- Familiarity with mTLS, PKI, and secure communication
Tech Stack
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EKS, EC2, S3), Kubernetes, Helm, Istio
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, New Relic, OpenSearch
- Security: OWASP, mTLS, IAM, RBAC
- Networking: TCP/IP, Firewalls, VPNs (IPSec, WireGuard)
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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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