Sr Principal Software Development Engineer

Position Summary

• F5 Inc. is actively seeking an exceptional Sr Principal Software Engineer (Individual Contributor) to design, develop and maintain critical platform software used in F5 Distributed Cloud Edge platform.

If solving challenges of supporting a self healing software infrastructure across on-prem and cloud platform excites you, this role offers an end to end ownership in handling missing critical software to be delivered across diverse infrastructure.

Our SaaS is hybrid running across public cloud and a global network of 50+ PoPs, delivering terabits of capacity and many thousands of Customer Edge devices installed in diverse infrastructure.

Be the Architect Behind Availability and Resiliency of Customer Edge platform

• Drive reliability and resiliency as part of the platform
• Drive architecture of end-to-end Observability (Logs, Metrics, and Alerts) across our hybrid SaaS stack, spanning cloud and edge devices.
• Drive the scale of the platform
• Implement self-healing solutions for deployment and maintenance of the services.

Own Roadmap of the platform

• Design, build, and manage platforms with self-healing infrastructure across cloud + global PoPs.
• Develop and automate for Kubernetes, Golang-based services, AWS, GCP, Terraform for customer edge platform
• Continuously reduce toil in development lifecycle through tests, automation and platform improvements.

Collaborate & Mentor

• Work closely with Application teams and SREs to improve reliability and performance of the product.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of SDLC thinking.

Deep expertise in cloud native development. Experience in hybrid SaaS environments spanning cloud-native and global infrastructure. Strong background in Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Golang, AWS/GCP, and networking observability. Passion for deep observability, networking-scale analytics, and automation at the edge.

If you love creating a highly resilient platform that scale, automating everything, and working in a hybrid cloud + networking environment, we want to talk to you!

Must-Have:

Reliability and Resilency Expertise Strong experience in developing highly resilient and reliable systems. Observability & Alerting Expertise Strong experience with Logs, Metrics, and Alerts, with a focus on high-fidelity alerting and automation. Cloud & Hybrid SaaS Experience Hands-on experience in developing service that are cloud-native (AWS/GCP). Kubernetes Mastery Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production environments.

Nice-to-Have:

Data & Analytics in Observability Experience with time-series databases (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.). Security & Compliance Awareness Understanding of secure-by-design principles for monitoring & alerting. Mentorship & Collaboration Ability to mentor junior engineers and work cross-functionally with SREs, application teams, and network engineers. High Availability / Disaster Recovery: Experience with HA/DR and Migration

Qualifications

• Typically, it requires at least 18 years of related experience with a bachelors degree, 15 years and a masters degree, or a PhD with 12 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.

Environment

• Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.
• Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where you''ll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.

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