Distinguished Engineer – Secure Private Access (SPA) / Zero Trust

Overview

Distinguished Engineer role focused on defining and driving the long-term technical vision, architecture, and evolution of SonicWall’s Secure Private Access (SPA) platform and Zero Trust access technologies.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture strategy for SPA and Zero Trust access technologies.
• Lead design and evolution of scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native distributed systems.
• Influence architectural decisions and engineering standards across multiple product and engineering organizations.
• Provide technical leadership during production incidents, customer escalations, and security events, including root cause analysis.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to engineering and executive leadership.
• Mentor Principal Engineers and cultivate technical leadership across the organization.

What you'll need

• 15–18+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership in large-scale infrastructure, networking, or security platforms.
• Hands-on contributions to complex distributed systems and cloud-scale services.
• Deep expertise in networking and traffic processing (data plane architectures, TCP/IP, DNS, WireGuard, Layer 3/4/7 enforcement strategies).
• Strong programming experience in Go, C++, Rust, or similar systems languages.
• Deep understanding of networking and security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and identity systems.
• Experience across one or more domains such as SPA, ZTNA, SSE, SASE, VPN/secure connectivity, and enterprise access security.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.
• Work mode indicated: Hybrid.