Sr Principal Engineer, Software
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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.
Position Summary
- F5 Inc. is actively seeking an exceptional Sr Principal Software Engineer (Individual Contributor) to design develop and maintain critical platform software used in F5 Distributed Cloud Edge platform.
If solving challenges of supporting a self healing software infrastructure across on-prem and cloud platform excites you this role offers an end to end ownership in handling missing critical software to be delivered across diverse infrastructure.
Why This Role is Unique:
Our SaaS is hybrid running across public cloud and a global network of 50 PoPs delivering terabits of capacity and many thousands of Customer Edge devices installed in diverse infrastructure.
What Youll Do:
Be the Architect Behind Availability and Resiliency of Customer Edge platform
- Drive reliability and resiliency as part of the platform
- Drive architecture of end-to-end Observability (Logs Metrics and Alerts) across our hybrid SaaS stack spanning cloud and edge devices.
- Drive the scale of the platform
- Implement self-healing solutions for deployment and maintenance of the services.
Own Roadmap of the platform
- Design build and manage platforms with self-healing infrastructure across cloud global PoPs.
- Develop and automate for Kubernetes Golang-based services AWS GCP Terraform for customer edge platform
- Continuously reduce toil in development lifecycle through tests automation and platform improvements.
Collaborate & Mentor
- Work closely with Application teams and SREs to improve reliability and performance of the product.
- Mentor junior engineers fostering a culture of SDLC thinking.
What Makes You a Great Fit
Deep expertise in cloud native development.
Experience in hybrid SaaS environments spanning cloud-native and global infrastructure.
Strong background in Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) Golang AWS/GCP and networking observability.
Passion for deep observability networking-scale analytics and automation at the edge.
If you love creating a highly resilient platform that scale automating everything and working in a hybrid cloud networking environment we want to talk to you!
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Must-Have:
Reliability and Resilency Expertise Strong experience in developing highly resilient and reliable systems. Observability & Alerting Expertise Strong experience with Logs Metrics and Alerts with a focus on high-fidelity alerting and automation. Cloud & Hybrid SaaS Experience Hands-on experience in developing service that are cloud-native (AWS/GCP). Kubernetes Mastery Hands-on experience deploying managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production environments.
Nice-to-Have:
Data & Analytics in Observability Experience with time-series databases (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry etc.). Security & Compliance Awareness Understanding of secure-by-design principles for monitoring & alerting. Mentorship & Collaboration Ability to mentor junior engineers and work cross-functionally with SREs application teams and network engineers. High Availability / Disaster Recovery: Experience with HA/DR and Migration
Qualifications
- Typically it requires at least 18 years of related experience with a bachelors degree 15 years and a masters degree or a PhD with 12 years experience; or equivalent experience.
- Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.
Environment
- Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
- Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains supporting your professional growth.
- Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where youll feel at home from day one contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.
F5 Networks Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
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 .
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
