Principal Engineer, Software

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Position Summary

F5's NGINX Business Unit is seeking an accomplished and seasoned Principal Software Engineer primarily located in India. In this crucial role, you will assume direct responsibility for the design, development, and sustainment of our commercial management planes within the NGINX product line. Perform as a technical lead and collaborate with peers on assigned project teams. Requires little direct management to complete most development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide thorough technical insight and be a subject matter expert for the team.

• Assess and address complex software malfunctions within the realm of network, security, and web technologies, including troubleshooting issues related to HTTP load balancers, API gateways (such as NGINX proxies), and similar systems.

• Operate within cloud orchestration ecosystems like Kubernetes, AWS/Azure public clouds.

• Improve the existing functionality.

• Serve as source of technical expertise to a project team and as a mentor for junior staff members.

• Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software.

• Collaborate with team members in diverse, geographically distributed teams.

• Evaluate the design and implementation of current source code.

• Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5’s components and features.

• May conduct presentations internal and external.

• May participate in hiring and onboarding process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree; and/or equivalent work experience.

• 10+ years of experience in relevant roles.

• Outstanding coding abilities with languages such as Go, Python.

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.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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