Principal Engineer, Software
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 186400 - 279600
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
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 who will provide technical vision leadership and hands-on expertise to deliver high-scale high-performance software for our BIG-IP portfolio of products.
We are seeking a senior technical leader with expertise in complex large-scale network infrastructure and systems. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated history of successfully designing developing and delivering production-grade application delivery services.
Youll collaborate closely with product managers architects and engineers across multiple teams to shape the technical direction ensure architectural integrity and guide our engineering teams toward building resilient performant and secure software.
What Youll Do
Lead the design and development of high performance secure and scalable software for F5s BIG-IP control plane and related platform.
Drive architectural decisions ensuring scalability performance and security across multi-cloud and on-prem deployments.
Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers promoting engineering excellence and best practices.
Collaborate with cross-functional teamsincluding Product UX and Site
Reliability Engineeringto translate business requirements into robust maintainable technical solutions.
Evaluate emerging technologies frameworks and approaches to improve the platforms capabilities and developer productivity.
Lead deep technical reviews of architecture design and code to ensure the highest quality deliverables.
Partner with leadership to set technical roadmaps and standards for network systems development.
Act as a thought leader for BIG-IP internally and externally including technical blogs whitepapers and conference presentations.
Minimum Qualifications
10 years of professional software development experience including 5 years building network infrastructure.
Proven expertise in at least one modern programming language (Go Java Python or similar) and proficiency in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming.
Strong experience with cloud-native architecture microservices Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
Deep understanding of networking security APIs and data consistency modern application delivery.
Demonstrated success in technical leadership roles influencing cross-team architecture and delivering complex projects.
Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines observability and operational excellence practices.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with multi-cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and hybrid environments.
Network control plane design in a highly scalable and fault tolerant environment.
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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $186400.00 - $279600.00F5 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 .
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
