Senior Principal Engineer - Go / Golang experience is a must

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to own and drive the API platform for SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE). You will define the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of a cloud-native SSE platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and high-performing.

As a hands-on leader, you will design distributed systems and APIs that enable secure, Zero Trust access to applications, SaaS, and enterprise resources, while mentoring a global team and driving engineering excellence across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive 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 enforce 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
• Extensive experience in database design, performance tuning, and large-scale data systems (SQL/NoSQL)
• 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 engineers
• Strong communication skills and pragmatic decision-making ability
• Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS)
• Experience building and scaling cloud-delivered networking services is a plus
• Champion AI-first engineering practices to improve developer productivity and quality

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