F5 Principal Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

535995819

Responsibilities

• Effectively lead data path areas of the Distributed Cloud (XC) product line.
• Understand the distributed systems deeply and design scalable solutions.
• Technically lead the implementation of major system components.
• Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents.
• Proactively identifying and resolving key technical issues.
• Work on performance improvements across the platform.
• Investigate and propose solutions for the security vulnerabilities of Distributed Cloud platform and third-party packages used by the platform.
• Serve as a source of technical expertise to the product team and be a mentor for junior staff members.
• Keep abreast of new technologies, potential business partners.
• Efficientlycommunicate/collaborateinternally at F5.
• Conduct presentations both internally and externally - this includes technical and non-technical colleagues and customers.
• Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes and standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 14 years of significant software development and engineering experience.
• 10 or more years designing, implementing and evangelizing large scale distributed systems.
• Prior experience with cloud technology and networking, load balancers, routing platforms, control plane, SDN, Docker, Kubernetes, public cloud (Azure, AWS) etc.
• Experience with any commercial load balancer.
• Architectural skills and ability to deep dive into technical challenges.
• Aptitude for solving complex problems and attitude of transcending new/classic technology preferences in favour of finding right solutions for our customers.
• Specialist in various software architectures such as distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong engineering and design skills, with solid understanding of real-time high performance, scalable and distributed systems.
• Good communication, presentation skills and ability to work well in a development team.
• Proven experience driving complex SW development and test efforts in small and fast paced organizations, with an understanding of the trade-offs that must be made to ensure timeliness and quality.