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.

Are you passionate about defining and delivery on quality goals and outcomes that result in exceptional user and customer experience and efficient software development and service delivery for the team? Are you looking to work in a dynamic, highly motivated, technology-forward team where each individual's contribution directly impacts our success. We work at startup pace but with the support and resources of a large corporation sound exciting to you?

We are the Digital Enablement Team in one of F5 Networks' newly formed product teams - looking for a Principal Engineer, responsible for the design, development and implementation of a distributed systems platform that runs in both public and private cloud environments. You will lead technical projects and serve as a mentor to engineering staff members. You will be an organizational spokesperson on advanced projects/program and cross-functional design projects. We will rely on your current and ongoing knowledge of emerging technologies. You will build formal technology proposals and build consensus to productize it.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work closely with the team to design and code robust scalable, software components and microservices that integrate with both public and private cloud environments.

• Apply architecture and design principles to enable target end-to-end usage scenarios

• Propose designs optimized for extensibility, enabling development teams to operate quickly and iteratively

• Work with scrum teams and Product Management to refine requirements, understand how we will meet the broader requirements of the system and help design efficient, flexible and scalable services

• Analyze criteria and options, collecting necessary data to answer key questions

• Meet with key partners, internal teams, and 3rd-party partners in joint design and development efforts

• Be comfortable owning and articulating product architecture roadmap

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Deep understanding and development expertise with a broad set of relevant component technologies.

• Knowledge of OSI Layer-1 to 7 including LAN switches, routers, general TCP/IP and associated protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, SSL)

• Good knowledge of microservices architecture, standard patterns, API design and development best practices

• Hands-on expertise with test driven development and various testing methodologies

• Working knowledge of development and deployment across multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare and OpenStack

• Knowledge or experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Mesos

• Ability to learn, lead and mentor

• Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment

• Development experience with one of Apache, Nginx or HAProxy is a plus

• Recommends and maintains technical design processes and standards

• Excellent interpersonal skills and growth mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of experience or 12+ years and a Master’s degree or equivalent experience

• Programming experience in languages such as C/C++, Python and Bash (Golang is plus)

• Relevant hands-on experience with any industry-standard cloud provider would be preferred

F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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.

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.