We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to define and drive the long-term architectural vision for our cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) platform , while ensuring strategic alignment with our next-generation physical firewall portfolio.

This role will primarily focus on evolving a globally distributed, multi-tenant cloud security platform — guiding its scalability, resilience, extensibility, and innovation trajectory. In parallel, the Distinguished Engineer will ensure that our physical firewall products integrate seamlessly into a unified security ecosystem through shared policy, telemetry, and management frameworks.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring exceptional depth in cloud-native distributed systems, security architectures, and high-performance networking.

Key Responsibilities :

- Drive a cohesive long-term architecture strategy spanning cloud-native SSE and physical firewall appliances :

- Oversee and mentor Principal Engineers and Architects across product lines.

- Guide high-performance packet processing architectures (L3-L7 )

- Guide architecture for building and scaling cloud native security services

- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive incubation of next-generation capabilities.

- Represent the company in strategic customer or partner technical engagements when needed.

Required Skills & Experience :





- 18+ years of engineering experience in cybersecurity, networking, cloud platforms

- Proven experience shaping large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS architectures .

- Experience with high-performance packet processing and traffic inspection .

- Strong systems thinking across hardware, firmware, and cloud software layers. :

- Experience mentoring senior technical leaders and architects.

- Experience building scalable telemetry, logging, and analytics pipelines

- Strong experience with Kubernetes, containers, service meshes, and hyperscaler environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) :

- Recognized technical authority capable of influencing senior engineers and executives.

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to creating a diverse setting 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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