Principal Engineer, Software

Responsibilities

• Effectively lead data path areas of the 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
• Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally 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 fifteen years of significant software development and engineering experience.
• Ten 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.
• Strong SW engineering and design skills with an eye for detail
• Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so.