Sonicwall

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Principal Software Engineer - Control Plane / Data Plane

Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted
Jun 25, 2026
Last seen
Aug 7, 2026

About the role

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 .

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and optimization of a key dataplane module for SonicWall NGFW platforms.
  • Design, implement, and enhance high‑performance packet‑processing paths using DPDK/ODP/OFP or similar frameworks.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex perform