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Sr Principal Engineer, Software @ F5

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 Sr Principal Engineer, Software

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  • Position Summary
  • F5 Inc. is actively seeking an exceptional Sr Principal Software Engineer (Individual Contributor) to design, develop and maintain critical platform software used in F5 Distributed Cloud Edge platform.
    • If solving challenges of supporting a self healing software infrastructure across on-prem and cloud platform excites you, this role offers an end to end ownership in handling missing critical software to be delivered across diverse infrastructure.
    Why This Role is Unique:
    Our SaaS is hybrid - running across public cloud and a global network of 50+ PoPs, delivering terabits of capacity and many thousands of Customer Edge devices installed in diverse infrastructure.
    What You'll Do:
    Be the Architect Behind Availability and Resiliency of Customer Edge platform
  • Drive reliability and resiliency as part of the platform
  • Drive architecture of end-to-end Observability (Logs, Metrics, and Alerts) across our hybrid SaaS stack, spanning cloud and edge devices.
  • Drive the scale of the platform
  • Implement self-healing solutions for deployment and maintenance of the services.

    • Own Roadmap of the platform
  • Design, build, and manage platforms with self-healing infrastructure across cloud + global PoPs.
  • Develop and automate for Kubernetes, Golang-based services, AWS, GCP, Terraform for customer edge platform
  • Continuously reduce toil in development lifecycle through tests, automation and platform improvements.

    • Collaborate & Mentor
  • Work closely with Application teams and SREs to improve reliability and performance of the product.
  • Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of SDLC thinking.
    • What Makes You a Great Fit
    Deep expertise in cloud native development.
  • Experience in hybrid SaaS environments spanning cloud-native and global infrastructure.
  • Strong background in Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), Golang, AWS/GCP, and networking observability.
  • Passion for deep observability, networking-scale analytics, and automation at the edge.If you love creating a highly resilient platform that scale, automating everything, and working in a hybrid cloud + networking environment, we want to talk to you!The 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.
    Must-Have: Reliability and Resilency Expertise - Strong experience in developing highly resilient and reliable systems. Observability & Alerting Expertise - Strong experience with Logs, Metrics, and Alerts, with a focus on high-fidelity alerting and automation. Cloud & Hybrid SaaS Experience - Hands-on experience in developing service that are cloud-native (AWS/GCP). Kubernetes Mastery - Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production environments.
    Nice-to-Have: Data & Analytics in Observability - Experience with time-series databases (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.). Security & Compliance Awareness - Understanding of secure-by-design principles for monitoring & alerting. Mentorship & Collaboration - Ability to mentor junior engineers and work cross-functionally with SREs, application teams, and network engineers. High Availability / Disaster RecoveryExperience with HA/DR and Migration
    Qualifications
  • Typically, it requires at least 18 years of related experience with a bachelor s degree, 15 years and a master s degree, or a PhD with 12 years experience; or equivalent experience.
  • Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.
    • Environment
  • Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
  • Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.
  • Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where you'll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.
    • F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
    The 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 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 ac***********s@**.com .

    Job Classification

    Industry: Hardware & Networking
    Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
    Role Category: Software Development
    Role: Technical Architect
    Employement Type: Full time

    Contact Details:

    Company: F5
    Location(s): Bangaluru

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    Keyskills:   kubernetes golang networking gcp aws microservices spring java j2ee software engineering rest javascript alerts high availability spring boot angular as saas infrastructure logging troubleshooting .net terraform sdlc cloud-native development

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