Sr 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.

Join a revolutionary team of Distributed Cloud Data engineering, Analytics, Cloud service specialists to build core data system, analytics, telemetry, AI/ Generative AI powered services at scale in the growing field of multi-cloud SaaS (Software as a Service), Security and Multi Cloud Networking solutions.  

We are looking for a Sr Principal Software Engineer or Software Architect to join our Data engineering team to accelerate data platform and data and telemetry missions in the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform Group.  

As a critical member of the Distributed Cloud Data engineering team, you will be responsible for leading the architecture, design and development of the data systems and data services for the new landscape of F5 SaaS products.   

Responsibilities  

• Build F5 Distributed Cloud data system and management systems.  
• Innovate/ design/ develop data, analytics, AI/Gen AI powered service on SaaS platform. 
• Architect/ design/develop telemetry and metrics pipeline and services.  
• As a subject-matter expert on data system, AI/ ML (Machine Learning), cloud service, networking, and security, work closely with product, marketing, operation, platform, and customer support team to create innovative solution for Cloud and SaaS product delivery.

Required Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree (or above, Graduate degree preferred) in computer science or equivalent professional experience (Principal level with 10+ years, Architect level with 14+ years).  
• Extensive experience in Data Engineering and SaaS products with principal or architect roles.
• Experience in data system, data services, observability, telemetry architecture for cloud services.
• Proficiency in Cloud service development and programming languages such as GO, Java, Python, C++, Rust, WASM.
• Deep knowledge and experience with data/ stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Pubsub, Dataflow, Vector), database and data warehouse (e.g., ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Big Query, Redis).
• Experience with data driven, ML/AI, Generative AI powered applications in security, networking, telemetry, AI/BI, product growth and engineering productivity.
• Experience with logging, metrics, tracing, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, and pipeline.
• Experience with data system quality, monitoring, and performance. 
• Experience in SaaS multi-tenancy, onboarding, metering & billing, monitoring & alerting.
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies, Kubernetes and Microservice.
• Experience with automation and cloud Infra, tooling, workload, modern CI/CD.

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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 base pay for this position is: $207,279.00 - $310,919.00

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 [email protected].