F5 is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical vision, leadership, and hands-on expertise to deliver high-scale, high-performance software for their BIG-IP portfolio of products, addressing the need for complex, large-scale network infrastructure and systems development.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience with multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments.
- Network control plane design in a highly scalable and fault tolerant environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of high performance, secure and scalable software for F5’s 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 teams—including Product, UX, and Site Reliability Engineering—to translate business requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and approaches to improve the platform’s 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.
Other
- Act as a thought leader for BIG-IP internally and externally, including technical blogs, whitepapers, and conference presentations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 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.
