Software Dev Principal Engineer -Go and cloud experience is a must

Job highlights

• You will work as part of a globally distributed engineering team across India,USA,and other development centres,collaborating cross-functionally with engineers,QA,and product teams to deliver high-quality features in an agile,fast-paced environment. Education and Experience
• or 8 years and a Masters degree
• or a PhD with 6 years experience

Software Dev Principal Engineer - Cloud-Native Microservices Network Security

About the Role

In this role, you will help build secure and scalable software capabilities that integrate with SonicWall 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 NSMs 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, USA, and other development centres, collaborating cross-functionally with engineers, QA, and product teams to deliver high-quality features in an agile, fast-paced environment.

Education and Experience

• At least 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 6 years experience; or equivalent experience preferred

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

  Responsibilities

• Defining technical strategy/architecture direction.
• Mentoring and growing senior engineers, and driving engineering standards adoption
• Collaborate with AI coding tools - validating, testing, debugging, refining generated code, establishing coding standards and AI guardrails.
• Lead end-to-end system design - from requirements decomposition through to deployment topology, data modelling, and API contracts
• Collaborate with engineering managers and product leads on roadmap feasibility, effort estimation, and technical risk assessment
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Go-based microservices for NSMs cloud and On-Prem deployments
• Build and evolve RESTful API endpoints serving enterprise customers at scale
• Implement and maintain certificate-based connection trust (mTLS) for secure service-to-service and client-to-service communication
• Adopt a secure software development framework and ensure that the software development process addresses the OWASP Top 10 risks from design to delivery.
• Instrument software services with structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics using Open Telemetry, New Relic, and OpenSearch

• Contribute to both cloud-native (AWS/Kubernetes) and On-Prem microservice deployments, ensuring feature and security parity

  Required Skills

• AI-Assisted Coding: Proficient use of AI coding tools is expected as a force multiplier applied with engineering rigor.
  • Critical validation - Identify and fix security vulnerabilities, logic errors, and inefficiencies in AI-generated code.
  • Iterative collaboration - Work with AI to refine, test, and improve code in small, reviewable chunks rather than accept large, unreviewed outputs.
• Secure Coding - Hands-on knowledge of the OWASP Top 10, threat modelling and secure design code review.
• System Design
  • Ability to design distributed systems at scale
  • Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS architectures
  • Familiarity with event-driven architecture at scale
• Languages, APIs and Databases
  • Golang - 8 to 10 years of software development using Golang on Linux or MacOS
  • Microservices - inter-service communication (gRPC/REST), event-driven patterns
  • RESTful API design -versioning, security, OpenAPI specification
  • WebSockets - real-time bidirectional communication.
  • mTLS Certificate Trust - mutual TLS configuration, x509 certificate lifecycle, PKI integration, client identity verification
  • Databases - MongoDB: Core operations - CRUD, aggregation pipeline, indexing strategies, Schema design, Query optimization.
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