Director Of Engineering

Director of Engineering

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.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and global scale-out of our Security Service Edge (SSE) platform. This role is responsible for building and evolving our cloud-native security platform that delivers comprehensive protection across users, devices, applications, data, and network traffic — spanning branch, hybrid, multi-cloud, and internet environments. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and enterprise security platforms. You will shape the long-term technical strategy, drive execution excellence, and build a high-performing engineering organization in India that supports a globally deployed SaaS platform.

Key responsibilities include defining and executing the long-term engineering roadmap for the SSE platform aligned with business objectives, building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams, establishing strong architectural governance, engineering best practices, and quality standards, championing secure-by-design principles across application code, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, partnering closely with Product Management to evolve core SSE capabilities including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), CASB, policy engines, traffic inspection, analytics, and identity integrations, recruiting and retaining top engineering talent in cloud, distributed systems, and cybersecurity domains, and fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

Required skills and experience include 15+ years in software development and 5+ years in engineering leadership, proven experience building and scaling SaaS engineering teams, strong track record of delivering complex, cloud-native security or networking products, deep understanding of SSE/SASE architecture principles and zero-trust frameworks, strong background in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and hyperscale environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), experience with identity systems (SSO, MFA, OAuth, SAML), policy engines, and traffic inspection frameworks, familiarity with DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, observability, reliability engineering, and automation, and proficiency in modern programming languages such as Go and Python.