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Job Location drjobs

San Jose, CA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 199952 - 299928

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep experience building and scaling SaaS platforms in the cloud. This role requires a handson technical leader who can architect and deliver complex distributed systems while mentoring engineers and driving crossfunctional alignment.

Youll lead design and development of scalable microservices define engineering best practices and help shape the future of our SaaS platform. This is a highly influential role focused on delivering performant secure and reliable solutions that align with business goals.

What Youll Do

  • Lead architecture and development of scalable enterprisegrade backend systems and APIs

  • Drive design reviews and partner with stakeholders to align technical solutions with product strategy

  • Mentor engineers promote engineering excellence and foster continuous improvement

  • Influence crossteam technical direction and ensure alignment with scalability security and observability best practices

  • Define and uphold high standards for code quality maintainability and performance

  • Own implementation of observability testing and monitoring strategies

What You Bring

  • Deep expertise in microservices distributed systems and cloudnative technologies (Kubernetes Docker GitOps CI/CD)

  • Proficiency in backend development with Golang or similar languages (Java C Rust)

  • Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases performance tuning GRPC Kafka Protobuf

  • Knowledge of DNS CDN networking principles and Linux systems (including scripting and automation)

  • Excellent analytical and debugging skills with a track record of owning missioncritical systems

  • Strong communication and leadership skills with experience mentoring teams and influencing technical direction

Qualifications

  • 10 years of backend software engineering experience in cloudnative environments

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent industry experience

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be allinclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $199952.00 $299928.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @ or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .


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