Principal API Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
Expert/Leader
Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Principal API Engineer will lead API development, ensure security practices, mentor a team, and contribute to the Banyan Zero Trust platform architecture.
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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 TwitterLinkedInFacebook and Instagram.

Responsibilities:
This software engineering role is focused on hands-on coding and technical leadership for one of our critical components in the Banyan platform. The API is the control plane of the Banyan Zero Trust product, the central place of orchestration of actions through our distributed system. The role will also include contributing to the overall platform architecture, balancing performance, reliability, and extensibility objectives while delivering features to our customers.

This role will also provide technical leadership for our offshore Go engineering team, requiring strong communication and the ability to lead through time zones.

What we are looking for: 

● Lead our API as a product 
● Collaborate with engineers on a vision but follow a pragmatic plan
● Ensure API security and lead secure coding practices
● Ensure API documentation is created and remains up to date
● Provide mentorship to a growing team
● Provide an opinion on CI/CD/CT

What we need:

● API Design 
● Code reviews
● Core Go Code contributor
● SaaS application development best practices
● Support end-to-end management of the APIs over their entire lifecycle
● Be able to distill business objectives into technical solutions through effective system design and architecture.
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 a related field preferred 

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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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The Company
Milpitas, CA
1,832 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1991

What We Do

SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.

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