Principal Software Development Engineer

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.

As a Principal DevOps Engineer within our cutting-edge AI Security team, you'll architect and maintain cloud infrastructure for our AI security platform. This role is critical for ensuring scalability, reliability, and security of our B2B SaaS solution. You'll design CI/CD pipelines, manage Kubernetes workloads, and leverage serverless technologies to optimize our cloud-native architecture and deliver innovative AI-powered solutions.

What you'll do

• Cloud Infrastructure: Design and implement scalable cloud architectures, focusing on high availability, security, and performance optimization for our Generative AI platform.
• CI/CD and Automation: Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes to ensure rapid and reliable feature delivery.
• Container Orchestration: Manage and optimize containerized workloads, ensuring efficient resource utilization and application scalability.
• Serverless Solutions: Implement and manage serverless architectures, enhancing our platform's flexibility and cost-efficiency.
• Observability and Monitoring: Build comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution, maintaining high system reliability.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices and compliance standards across our cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience: Proven track record in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure for scalable applications. Experience with DevOps practices in a B2B SaaS environment is highly desirable.
• Technical Skills: Expertise in AWS services, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions), AWS Lambda, and observability tools like Datadog.
• Additional Skills: Ideal candidates would have experience in Service Meshes, API Gateway, MongoDB administration and optimization, and microservices architecture. Familiarity with one or more programming languages such as Go, TypeScript, or Python is a plus.
• Leadership Skills: Ability to lead projects with minimal guidance, excellent problem-solving skills, and the capacity to take and integrate feedback constructively.
• Analytical Mindset: Strong interest in analyzing and deciphering complex systems, with a keen eye for improving system efficiency and performance.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, capable of conveying complex technical ideas clearly and effectively.

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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: $225,600.00 - $338,400.00

F5 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].