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 Overview:
We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our team. In this influential role, you will serve as a key technical leader, shaping the technical strategy, ensuring architectural excellence, and driving the design, development, and delivery of cutting-edge software solutions. You will also provide mentorship to engineers, fostering growth and innovation within the team. This role is ideal for a seasoned software engineering professional who excels at solving complex technical challenges, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on development, and collaborating cross-functionally to align technical execution with business goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable, high-performance systems and software applications.
Drive innovation and make critical technical decisions that drive the success of products, projects, and teams.
Establish, enforce, and advocate for technical best practices, standards, and processes to promote consistency, efficiency, and excellence across the development lifecycle.
Software Development:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Proactively identify, address, and resolve complex technical challenges, bottlenecks, and risks.
Experiment and develop proof-of-concepts, delivering impactful proposals and demos that effectively showcase innovative functionality and assess feasibility.
Write, review, and maintain high-quality code.
Ensure that systems and solutions are designed with scalability, reliability, and security in mind.
Investigate and optimize the performance of existing systems to improve scalability, performance, and reliability.
Contribute to incident management processes, resolution of production issues, and root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
Strategy and Vision:
Collaborate closely with engineering and product leadership to ensure technical strategies are fully aligned with organizational objectives.
Advise senior leaders on significant technical matters.
Shape and influence the product roadmap by providing strategic insights and direction.
Proactively identify emerging trends and opportunities in software, infrastructure, and tools to strengthen the organization's competitive edge.
Mentorship and Collaboration:
Provide mentorship and guidance to software engineers at all levels of experience to accelerate their technical growth and career development.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the engineering organization.
Act as a thought leader, empowering teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
Represent the team in cross-organizational meetings as a recognized Subject Matter Expert
Qualifications:
Over 15 years of experience in software development, with a strong track record of solving complex technical challenges at scale and a deep expertise in system programming (C, Rust, C++).
Extensive knowledge of networking fundamentals, including cloud-based networks, web protocols, proxies, load balancing, API gateway, and caching.
Proficient in designing and building distributed, fault-tolerant, high-performance, and secure systems.
Solid knowledge of advanced systems concepts such as event-driven architecture, multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance optimization, and scalability.
Well-versed in open-source development practices and tools, leveraging community-driven innovation to enhance project outcomes effectively.
Proven track record of success as a technical leader, overseeing large-scale, complex projects from inception to delivery.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging and influencing stakeholders across all organizational levels effectively.
If you are excited about solving complex problems and shaping the future of technology, we would love to have you on board. Join us as we build next-generation solutions that push boundaries and redefine possibilities.
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: $188,436.00 - $282,654.00F5 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].
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