Principal Engineer — Python is a must
SonicWall (company site, opens in a new tab)10+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 40–65 LPA
Posted 4h ago
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About This Role
- Own the end-to-end architecture of SonicSandbox and UrlProtection, spanning malware analysis pipelines, VM sandboxing, machine-learning services, and URL-protection microservices.
- Lead development of detection capabilities and own delivery from design through packaging and production deployment.
- Account for production reliability, incident follow-up, technical standards and debt prioritization; mentor two Senior Software Engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: 10+ years in software engineering with a Bachelor’s degree, 8 years with a Master’s, 6 years with a PhD, or equivalent professional experience.
- Expert Python, including asynchronous programming, and distributed task processing or messaging systems; strong C and C++ proficiency.
- Deep experience in malware analysis, sandboxing, cybersecurity platforms, or related security software; experience with KVM/libvirt or comparable virtualization is required.
- Hands-on production deployment and management of machine-learning inference workloads using frameworks such as PyTorch, LightGBM, scikit-learn, or ONNX.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has led architecture and modernization of large, complex security software platforms spanning multiple systems and services.
- Can combine hands-on Python engineering with malware-analysis pipelines, virtualization, distributed processing, and production ML inference.
- Has owned production operations and software delivery, and can set engineering direction while guiding senior engineers.