Principal API Engineer

Summary

Join SonicWall, a leading cybersecurity company, as a Software Engineer to lead the API development for our Banyan Zero Trust product. This hands-on role involves technical leadership, collaborating with engineers, ensuring API security and documentation, and mentoring a growing team. You will contribute to the platform architecture, balancing performance, reliability, and extensibility. The position requires strong communication skills and the ability to lead an offshore Go engineering team. SonicWall offers a remote work opportunity and is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

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