Principal Engineer, Software

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.

Team and Position Summary:
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense team comprises of security and web experts, pioneers, evangelists, and elite researchers. We believe in the power of the Internet to be a positive force; our mission is to protect every website and mobile app from cybercriminals. Be a part of our unparalleled team that is responsible for making the Internet a safer place for everyone.

The Bot SaaS Systems team is responsible for building self-service capabilities and SaaSify F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense. This involves designing, building, operationalizing, automating, testing and maintaining various systems. These systems support multi-tenancy, telemetry and billing, policy management, and other capabilities inherent to Bot Defense solution. This will enable customers to secure Apps and APIs everywhere. Bot Defense protects 4+ billion transactions per week from imitation
attacks, so you can imagine the scale at which we operate.

As a principal software engineer, you will work on projects critical to our needs with opportunities to create innovative cloud-native solutions. You will be the person leading the design of complex system, develop technical integration strategies, ensure product design fits into the technical architecture. The result of your work can be seen on hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.

Responsibilities:
• Serves as technical expert for multiple systems
• Leads analysis of requirements and defines the design for new and modification of existing tools, utilities, environments, systems.
• Plan and implement the design specifications for the engineering project.
• Assists Architects and Managers with project scope and estimating
• Sets the direction and assists with the technical workflow of other engineers.
• Liaises with cross-functional teams to ensure that project is delivered in its entirety.
• Act as a mentor for junior members of the team
• Participates on cross functional design teams to develop expertise in other modules/systems
• Engages with Product Management to drive detailed product requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
• At least 8 years of experience in relevant technologies.
• Ability to lead high-level discussions on technology strategy and approach.
• Experience with general purpose programming languages such as Java, Python, Go etc.
• Experience with distributed systems and architecture, and systems integration.
• You have a strong bias for code quality and hygiene and are a team player.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production use cases and running applications at scale in Kubernetes.
• Experience with any graph technologies like Neo4J and Cypher is a plus.

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

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. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.