API Principal Architect

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
We’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.
What You’ll Do
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
What We’re Looking For
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