Distinguished Architect - Network/Cyber Security background**

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 Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

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 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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