דרושים Data Platform - Sr Principal Software Engineer ב-F5 ב-United States, San Jose

The Role

As Principal Product Manager for NGINX,be a key player in shaping how NGINX grows. Working side-by-side with the Director of Product Management,shape and execute theNGINX product. Yourinfluence will extend across refining market approachesbe instrumental in accelerating the adoption ofcloud-native architectures,

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ey Responsibilities

• Refine and articulatea clear product vision and strategy for NGINX Open Source and Plus, ensuring alignment with market trends, customer needs, and organizationalobjectives

• Develop andmaintaindetailedproduct roadmaps

• Partner withmarketing and sales teamsto position NGINX as a keycomponentofF5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), crafting compelling narratives for both enterprise and SMB audiences.

• nfluenceand informmonetization strategy,identifying

• Technical Product Managersandengineering teamsto deliver developer-centric solutions, ensuring feasibility and technical depth.

• Build meaningfulrelationships within the NGINXopen sourcecommunity, fostering engagement, extracting insights, and driving growth.

• nsuring alignment withcloud nativeecosystems,technologies like Kubernetes, cloud-native tools, and DevOps workflows.

• supporting professional development

• Act as a trusted advisor to theDirector of Product Management, contributing strategic insights and product recommendations.

• Define and track relevantKPIs and success metrics
  

About You

• Strategic yet hands-on, capable of defining a vision while ensuring its execution through practical products and detailed roadmaps.

• A natural connector who excels atcollaborating across highly technical and non-technical teams

• Detail-oriented but adaptable, ready to shift priorities as needed while still driving toward long-term success.

• A strong advocate fordeveloper workflows andopen sourcecommunities

• , energized by supporting and mentoring others while contributing to a culture of growth and excellence.

• , thriving in fast-paced environments and navigating challenges with a resourceful mindset.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of product management experiencein the software industry, including a combination ofon-premise, installed, and deployable software.

• Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, organize and champion key initiatives and projects for product development.

• enterprise-scale organizations

• in cloud-native architectures and tools, including Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, API gateways, and AWS.

• Experience defining andmonetizing products, withproficiency

• Deep knowledge ofDeveloper Operations (DevOps)andapplication development, with an understanding of developer workflows and tooling.

• Experience fostering and engagingdeveloper communities, particularly in the open-source space.

• Background working with or competing against technologies such asNGINX(experience with NGINX Plus or Open Source is a plus) and related platforms like Envoy,HAProxy, orTraefik

• Deep understanding of web traffic and application infrastructure, technical understanding of modern web standards, protocols and how their use derives value for customers.DNS/HTTP/TLS, WAF/WAAP/authN/Zsecurity technologies, and CI/CD

• Demonstrated success managing mature products, balancing innovation with maintenance.

• Exceptional collaboration and leadership skills, with a proven ability to mentor and lead diverse teams.

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Objectives of this role include:

• plansand delineate business priorities.

• Accountable for SaaS strategy and platform releases for scalable, reliable and efficient cloud platform.

• Define the principles, guidelines, standards for release planning for cloud platform, including hierarchical backlog prioritization, feature requirements, requests for product enhancements, release governance for content,scheduleand quality.

• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for development by engineering teams resulting in positive outcomes for F5 customers.

• Work closely with sales toidentifygrowth opportunities and execute product and GTM initiatives to drive execution against annual plan.

• Engage with customers and channel partners to drive adoption of products.

• Represent product in quarterly product business reviews, articulating the state of the business and frame initiatives to drive growth.

• Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders across marketing, support, systems, and commercial models to clearly articulate dependencies and enable aligned execution.

• Lead a team of product managers to drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including product and market research, competitor analysis, planning, positioning, requirements and roadmap development, and product launch of various F5 software products and solutions.

• communicationand technical acumen.

• Mentoring product managers, guiding them to deliver software releases that align to corporateobjective, meet specifications and is delivered on time.

• Represent product area in sales and customer facing forums, including conferences and industry events.

• Ability to travel 15-20%

REQUIRED SKILLS EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• “Can do” attitude and passion to make customers and colleagues successful.

• track recordas a productmanager leaderwith experience in building and scaling SaaS businesses.

• Experience in all phases of product lifecycle management

• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries

• Background and experience in networking and security software and services

• Solid understanding of cloud/data center networking, application delivery and application security concepts is a plus.

• Passion for leading teams and contributing to the career development of individuals.

• Ownership mindset with the natural inclinations to take challenges head on and deliver impact.

• Ability to straddle across strategy, technicaldepthand execution in product delivery.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Minimum of aBachelors inengineeringrequired.Graduatedegree in engineering or business is a plus.

• 10+ years of experience in product management

Ram Durairaj

Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Cloud

We’re looking for aPrincipal Software Engineerwho will provide technical vision, leadership, and hands-on expertise to deliver high-scale, high-performance software for our Distributed Cloud Platform.

and has a proven track record of designing, developing, and delivering production-grade cloud services.You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and engineers across multiple teams to shape the technical direction, ensure architectural integrity, and guide our engineering teams toward building resilient, performant, and secure software.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and development ofhighly available, distributed services for F5’s Distributed Cloud Platform.

• Drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, performance, and security across multi-cloud and edge deployments.

• Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers, promoting engineering excellence and best practices.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Product, UX, and Site Reliability Engineering—to translate business requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions.

• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and approaches to improve the platform’s capabilities and developer productivity.

• Lead deep technical reviews of architecture, design, and code to ensure the highest quality deliverables.

• Partner with leadership to set technical roadmaps and standards for distributed systems development.

• Act as a thought leader for distributed cloud services internally and externally, including technical blogs, whitepapers, and conference presentations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 5+ years building distributed systemsat scale.

• Proven expertise in at least one modern programming language (Go, Java, Python, or similar) and proficiency in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming.

• Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.

• Deep understanding of networking, security, APIs, and data consistency models in distributed environments.

• Demonstrated success in technical leadership roles, influencing cross-team architecture and delivering complex projects.

• Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational excellence practices.

• Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments.

• Familiarity with distributed data stores, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures.

• Contributions to open-source projects related to distributed systems, networking, or cloud computing.

• scale,sizing and performance engineering efforts for the revolutionary F5XC Distributed Cloud SaaS Platform.

• As a pivotal team member, you will spearhead the entire F5XC Sizing of Scale initiative, utilizing your expertise to devise inventive methodologies for assessing high-scale, globally distributed systems.

• Your role involves delving into the core components of F5XC, including Control, Configuration, and Data Planes, understanding their configurations for achieving global scale. Subsequently, you will formulate a systematic approach to test these components both in isolation and within an end-to-end SaaS offering, accommodating various combinations of features.

PrimaryResponsibilities

• Strategic Ownership:Spearhead the F5XC Scale/Performance

• Innovative Methodologies:Pioneer inventive methodologies for measuring highly scaled, globally distributed systems, showcasing your ability to think outside the box.

• Framework Development:Craft a robust framework of tools and best practices, ensuring that each release adheres to high-quality and scale conditions, thereby setting new industry benchmarks.

• Performance Optimization:

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Test Automation Advocate:

• Networking Proficiency:Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of networking fundamentals, coupled with practical experience in Kubernetes environments.

• Coding Prowess:Exhibit hands-on expertise in Python/Golang, emphasizing your ability to navigate and contribute to the codebase effectively.

• Security Acumen:Understanding of Network and Application Security (WAAP) is a definite plus, showcasing your holistic approach to system robustness.

• Technical Insight:Possess a solid understanding of L2/L3 networking and routing protocols, complemented by familiarity with the Linux Networking stack and Linux performance tuning parameters.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with aBachelor’sdegree, or 12 years and aMaster’sdegree,or equivalent experience.

• Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.

• Abundance of Freedom:Experience a workplace that encourages autonomy, fostering an environment where your ideas can flourish.

• Continuous Learning:

F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a world class, mission critical and highly reliable platform serving a global customer base. Our customers depend on us to keep their business highly available and secure around the planet.

latform in mimensions – global footprint, infrastructure, performance, low latencyetc., We are looking for aSoftware Engineer to join this mission.

Responsibilities

• and implement software systems that are highly distributed, concurrent and reliable to manage the lifecycle of our Distributed Cloud.

• Implement fully tested code with Observabilityand Telemetryfor Day 2 operations.

• Work closely with Product, Platform Services and SRE Engineers to make this system scale to the needs of business.

• Innovate by bringing the best ofideasto life and help business grow.

• Learn and share your ideas and practices, inside and outside the company, to uplift the entire engineering community.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (7+ years).

• Strong foundational understanding of systems, Linux Kernel, TCP/IP stack, K8s.

• Proficiency inCloud native development and programminglanguages such as GO,Rust andPython.

• Must demonstrate deep understanding of K8s machinery and have experience deploying Models (CRDs), Controllers and/or Operators in a mission critical environment.

• Must have skills in building large scale distributed systems, highly resilient, reliable and mission critical using K8s machinery.

• Must have experience in managing lifecycle of software systems with CI/CD using toolsArgoCDor similar.

• analytical, troubleshooting, and end to end debugging skills ina highly asynchronous event driven system.

• Experience working in a 24x7 uptime SaaS environment with global customer base.

• extensive knowledgeand/or experience in the domains of Network, routing, Infra,Underlay to VPN, DNS, Load Balancer technologies

Software Architect, Distributed Cloud

As a Software Architect, you will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams todesign, guide, and evolveF5’s Distributed Cloud systems. You will focus on ensuring our architecture supportsscalability, security, performance, andwhile enabling rapid delivery of new capabilities for our customers. This role demands bothdeep technical expertiseand the ability toinfluence and alignengineering efforts across multiple teams.

What You’ll Do

• Define and maintain thearchitecture roadmapfor the Distributed Cloud platform, aligning with business goals and customer needs.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to ensure architecture decisions are implemented consistently across services and teams.

• Lead architectural reviews, make build vs. buy decisions, and establish technical standards for distributed, cloud-native systems.

• Partner with Product Management to evaluate new feature requests for architectural fit, feasibility, and scalability.

• Identify and resolvetechnical debt, ensuring long-term maintainability and flexibility of the platform.

• Drive adoption of best practices inAPI design, data modeling, security, observability, and reliability engineering.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend their adoption where they can deliver competitive advantage or operational efficiency.

• Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering growth in distributed systems design and architecture skills.

• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements while enabling innovative solution design.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in anarchitect or principal engineerrole.

• Strong expertise indistributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud-native design.

• Experience designing and delivering large-scale, highly available, and secure SaaS platforms.

• Proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated cloud services.

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with ability to review and guide production-grade code.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withmulti-cloud architecturesand hybrid cloud environments.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale.

• Knowledge of security architectures for distributed applications, including zero-trust principles.

• Experience with real-time data processing, distributed databases, and event-driven architectures.

• Track record of driving architectural modernization initiatives in complex environments.