Senior Principal Engineer

F5 • San Jose, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. is on the lookout for an exceptional Sr Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor). Join our team and play a crucial role in the design and implementation of services on F5's Distributed Cloud Platform (F5XC). Your responsibilities will span research, design, and the construction of highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms, encompassing API definition, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging.

Requirements

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems, with the ability to understand nuances and solve problems related to scale, performance, and resiliency.
• Programming Languages: Expertise with any combination of programming languages: Golang, Python, Java or any high-level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming constructs.
• L3-L4 Networking – Hands-on experience working across the networking stack:
• Database Technologies: Must have hands-on experience with SQL or NoSQL technologies.
• CICD Methodology: Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodology and Git-based workflows.
• Container Technologies: Experience in Docker technologies, including optimizing Docker images and managing Docker image lifecycle. Experience in orchestration systems like Kubernetes and container technologies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Interpersonal and Leadership Skills: Strong interpersonal, team-building, and mentoring skills.
• Typically requires a minimum of 18+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree / master's degree.

Nice To Haves

• Cloud Knowledge: Experience with cloud-native providers such as MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or any major market Cloud vendors and their services is a significant advantage.

Responsibilities

• Cutting-edge Development and troubleshooting: Engage in desigining and development of edge-native applications and platform services using emerging technologies for F5’s innovative SaaS platform. Troubleshoot complex system issues related to connectivity, routing, DNS, NAT64/DNS64 and other networking technologies
• Ownership and Delivery: Troubleshoot complex system issues related to connectivity, routing, DNS, NAT64/DNS64, and other networking technologies
• Technology Exploration: Investigate various open-source and closed-source technologies, components, libraries, and tools, contributing to the construction of a highly available, scalable, and manageable system.
• Design Patterns and Microservices: Apply understanding and exposure to design patterns and coding practices, especially in microservices architectures and API design, implementation, and management.
• Cloud Knowledge: Experience with cloud-native providers such as MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or any major market Cloud vendors and their services is a significant advantage.
• Independent Innovation: Independently investigate, present options, review, and implement completely new functionality.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement new product offerings while ensuring continued functionality.
• Code Reviews and Guidelines: Follow the best coding practices, and guidelines within the team.
• Full Development Cycle: Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product, from understanding requirements to design, development, and deployment phases.
• Geographically Distributed Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams.

Benefits

• You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
• F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior