Sr. WebAssembly Architect

F5

5d • 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. 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. Position Summary This position will lead the design and implementation of critical WebAssembly runtime features, designed to meet a challenging mix of speed, space, and security constraints arising in business-critical production settings. The role will be expected to have a broad knowledge of compilers, interpreters, and their associated runtime support. Candidates should have several years’ experience developing compilers in a significant commercial or open-source context. It would be useful to have expertise in compilation of both static and dynamic languages, and targeting WebAssembly.

Requirements

• Broad knowledge of compilers, interpreters, and their associated runtime support.
• Several years of experience developing compilers in a significant commercial or open-source context
• Proficiency in a variety of development styles and languages, both static and dynamic
• Strong design and analytical skills
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills
• Strong background in software engineering principles with a focus on crafting robust and maintainable solutions to challenging problems
• Good communication and documentation skills

Nice To Haves

• MS/PhD in PL/Compilers highly desirable
• Experience with WebAssembly highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new WebAssembly runtime features, from concept to production
• Design and implement zero-copy or minimal-copy pathways for high-throughput, low-latency streaming
• Define and deliver ergonomic APIs for asynchronous capabilities, balancing safety, performance, and portability
• Profile and optimize performance
• Stay abreast of latest developments in compilation and optimization
• Help set expectations with software, architecture, and hardware stakeholders
• Work with geographically distributed compiler, architecture and application teams to oversee improvements and problem resolutions

What This Job Offers

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