Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Cloud

Position Summary

F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a world class, mission critical and highly reliable platform serving a global customer base. Our customers depend on us to keep their business highly available and secure around the planet.

We are rapidly expanding our platform in many dimensions global footprint, infrastructure, performance, low latency etc., We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join this mission.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software systems that are highly distributed, concurrent and reliable to manage the lifecycle of our Distributed Cloud.

• Implement fully tested code with Observability and Telemetry for Day 2 operations.

• Work closely with Product, Platform Services and SRE Engineers to make this system scale to the needs of business.

• Innovate by bringing the best of ideas to life and help business grow.

• Learn and share your ideas and practices, inside and outside the company, to uplift the entire engineering community.

• Mentor and lead a team of Software Engineers and deliver to the mission.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (10+ years).

• Strong foundational understanding of systems, Linux Kernel, TCP/IP stack, K8s.

• Proficiency in Cloud native development and programming languages such as GO, Rust and Python.

• Must demonstrate deep understanding of K8s machinery and have experience deploying Models (CRDs), Controllers and/or Operators in a mission critical environment.

• Must have skills in building large scale distributed systems, highly resilient, reliable and mission critical using K8s machinery.

• Must have experience in managing lifecycle of software systems with CI/CD using tools ArgoCD or similar.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and end to end debugging skills in a highly asynchronous event driven system.

• Experience working in a 24x7 uptime SaaS environment with global customer base.

• Preferred extensive knowledge and/or experience in the domains of Network, routing, Infra, Underlay to VPN, DNS, Load Balancer technologies.