Principal Software Engineer

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

F5 is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead delivery of a new product initiative and guide integrations with F5’s existing hardware, software, and hybrid offerings. Successful candidates will have a track record of learning emerging technologies and starting projects in new domains.

This role requires a deep understanding of distributed systems, hybrid deployment modalities, and the tradeoffs between monolithic and microservice architectures. Similarly, candidates will be expected to design systems which can be consumed by a variety of new and legacy platforms.

Primary Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and testing large scale distributed systems.
• Providing technical leadership for a team of 5-8 software engineers.
• Developing software components in Go or other languages as necessary.
• Collaborating with technical leadership across the business to ensure alignment on design and delivery of interdependent systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Essential

• Mastery of the Go programming language.
• Expertise with containerization and cloud native software deployments.
• Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals, Linux networking, and load balancing techniques.
• Experience building, testing, and debugging distributed systems.
• Knowledge of designing and consuming APIs via HTTP and gRPC.
• Superb written communication skills.
• Comfort working asynchronously in a globally distributed team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Python, Rust, or WebAssembly.
• Familiarity with AI/ML and related subjects (Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, etc.)
• Proficiency with traditional and modern database systems.
• Hardware acceleration experience (SmartNICs, DPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.)

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience.
• Experience with the essential skills listed above.

Position Summary

F5 is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead delivery of a new product initiative and guide integrations with F5’s existing hardware, software, and hybrid offerings. Successful candidates will have a track record of learning emerging technologies and starting projects in new domains.

This role requires a deep understanding of distributed systems, hybrid deployment modalities, and the tradeoffs between monolithic and microservice architectures. Similarly, candidates will be expected to design systems which can be consumed by a variety of new and legacy platforms.

Primary Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and testing large scale distributed systems.
• Providing technical leadership for a team of 5-8 software engineers.
• Developing software components in Go or other languages as necessary.
• Collaborating with technical leadership across the business to ensure alignment on design and delivery of interdependent systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Essential

• Mastery of the Go programming language.
• Expertise with containerization and cloud native software deployments.
• Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals, Linux networking, and load balancing techniques.
• Experience building, testing, and debugging distributed systems.
• Knowledge of designing and consuming APIs via HTTP and gRPC.
• Superb written communication skills.
• Comfort working asynchronously in a globally distributed team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Python, Rust, or WebAssembly.
• Familiarity with AI/ML and related subjects (Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, etc.)
• Proficiency with traditional and modern database systems.
• Hardware acceleration experience (SmartNICs, DPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.)

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience.
• Experience with the essential skills listed above.

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 annual U.S. base pay range for this position is: $181,774.00 - $272,660.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

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.

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.