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 Distributed Cloud Platform.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 5+ years building distributed systemsat scale.
- 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 architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
- Deep understanding of networking, security, APIs, and data consistency models in distributed environments.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of highly available, distributed services for F5’s Distributed Cloud Platform.
- Drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, performance, and security across multi-cloud and edge 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 distributed systems development.
Other
- Act as a thought leader for distributed cloud services internally and externally, including technical blogs, whitepapers, and conference presentations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 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 F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business.
- You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
- 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.
