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.
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Pricipal Engineer with expertise in Golang, Cloud infrastructure, and Cloud-Native technologies to join our dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for desigining, development, optimization, and maintenance of complex software applications and services. You will also serve as a technical mentor, guiding junior engineers while making critical architectural decisions. Key Responsibilities, Software Development & Optimization: Development and maintenance of scalable software applications using Go, focusing on performance optimization and high availability.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, engineers, and other teams to understand system requirements, work on new features, and improvements to enhance the overall functionality and user experience.
High-Quality Code: Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices and industry standards. Ensure that the codebase remains robust, modular, and scalable.
Code Reviews & Quality Assurance: Perform thorough code reviews, ensuring that the team follows coding standards and quality practices.
Technology Leadership: Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, bringing innovative solutions to the table.
Infrastructure as Code: Develop and manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, ensuring automated provisioning, deployment, and scaling of resources across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Cloud-Native Architecture: Design and deploy containerized applications using Kubernetes and manage orchestration of microservices in a distributed environment. Ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
API Design & Integration: Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and gRPC services for efficient communication across microservices. Use Protocol Buffers for optimal performance.
Mentorship & Leadership: Serve as a technical mentor for junior engineers. Provide guidance on code design, and development best practices.Key Requirements:Educational Background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Proven Experience: At least 18+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years focused on Go development.
Distributed Systems: Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and the principles behind scalable and resilient systems.
Data Structures & Algorithms: Strong expertise in data structures, algorithms, and system design patterns for building efficient, optimized solutions.
Version Control: Proficiency with Git and modern source code management tools. Experience with CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. Expertise in cloud networking, security, and cloud-native services (e.g., S3, EC2, IAM, VPC, TGW).
Infrastructure as Code: Extensive experience with Terraform and other infrastructure automation tools to provision, manage, and scale cloud resources.
Containerization & Orchestration: Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and related container orchestration tools to deploy and manage microservices at scale.
API Development: Proven experience developing RESTful and gRPC APIs. Familiarity with Protocol Buffers and API optimization techniques.Desirable Skills (Optional):Familiarity with Cloud Networking architectures.
Contributions to open-source projects or internal tooling.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development (TDD), and automated testing frameworks.
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.
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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].
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