Principal Engineer

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.

F5 Inc. seeks Principal Engineer in Seattle WA:

Job Duties: Design software system architecture. Microservice architecture distributed system design Containerization and Orchestration Database schema design Security and compliance. Read Product Requirements Document (PRD) and gather functional and non-functional requirements from product managers. Design system architecture and review with team members. Design data management and control including database schema choice of DBMS and blob storage backup and schema migration. Design API scheme and provide pseudocode for each microservice and flow. Design security aspects including authentication authorization data encryption and data masking. Design monitoring metrics alerting and disaster recovery plans. Implement new features and requirements. Streaming and batch processing Database schema design Containerization. Define API specs through protobuf or swagger YAML. Develop connection code to manage connection pools to databases. Develop model and data access object code to define and manage database operations through object relation mapping. Develop service code for well encapsulated internal and external services. Develop controller code to handle main execution flow of software program. Develop streaming data pipeline in Apache beam to handle transforms and ingestion to data warehouse. Develop batch data pipeline orchestrated by Apache Airflow to handle offline data processing and rollup from data warehouse to NoSQL database. Test documentation and DevOps. Code unit testing integration testing confluence Continuous integration Continuous deployment Infrastructure provisioning Kubernetes administration develop k8s packages. Develop unit-test test case and coverage test. Develop integration test cases. Develop and implement linter for code quality. Develop scripts for containerize the software. integrate unit-test integration testing linter with continuous integration pipeline. Package the containerized application for cloud-native deployment with Kubernetes clusters. Integrate monitoring and alerting frameworks and document alert response cookbook. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from F5 office in Seattle WA.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelors degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering (any field) or a related quantitative discipline and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.

Special Skill Requirements: (1) Python (2) Go (3) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (4) Kubernetes (5) GCP Dataflow or Apache Beam (6) GCP Composer or Apache Airflow (7) NoSQL Database (8) Relational Database (9) Service Mesh (10) Distributed Backend System Design (11) Microservice suitable combination of education training and experience is acceptable. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from F5 office in Seattle WA.

Salary: $186400 $279400 per annum. Benefits: F5 offers competitive pay 401k and other benefits: a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: at Req.# 19-7037

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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.

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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 .