Sr. Principal Software Development Engineer

About the role

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. Job Description Position Summary: F5 Inc. is on the lookout for an exceptional Sr. Principal (Individual Contributor). Join our team and play a crucial role in the design and implementation of services on F5's Distributed Cloud Platform (F5XC). Your responsibilities will span research, design, and the construction of highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms, encompassing API definition, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging. Primary Responsibilities: Cutting-edge Development and troubleshooting: Engage in the development of edge-native applications and platform services using emerging technologies for F5's innovative SaaS platform. Technology Exploration: Investigate various open-source and closed-source technologies, components, libraries, and tools, contributing to the construction of a highly available, scalable, and manageable system. Design Patterns and Microservices: Apply understanding and exposure to design patterns and coding practices, especially in microservices architectures and API design, implementation, and management. Independent Innovation: Independently investigate, present options, review, and implement completely new functionality. Collaboration: Work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement new product offerings while ensuring continued functionality. Code Reviews and Guidelines: Follow the best coding practices, and guidelines within the team. Full Development Cycle: Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product, from understanding requirements to design, development, and deployment phases. Geographically Distributed Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Distributed Systems Expertise: Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems, with the ability to understand nuances and solve problems related to scale, performance, and resiliency. Programming Languages: Expertise with any combination of programming languages: Golang, Python, Java or any high-level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming constructs. Cloud Knowledge: Experience with cloud-native providers such as MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or any major market Cloud vendors and their services is a significant advantage. L3-L7 Networking - Hands-on experience working across the networking stack: Database Technologies: Must have hands-on experience with SQL or NoSQL technologies. CICD Methodology: Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodology and Git-based workflows. Container Technologies: Experience in orchestration systems like Kubernetes and container technologies like Docker is a plus. Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Interpersonal and Leadership Skills: Strong interpersonal, team-building, and mentoring skills. Educational Qualifications: Typically requires a minimum of 15+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 10+ years and a master's degree. Environment: Freedom and Learning: Embrace an environment that fosters freedom, continuous learning, and ownership. Team Collaboration: Join a great team where you will feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and supportive workplace culture. 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. 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 fo