Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Cloud

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.

If you're passionate about engineering robust solutions for large-scale distributed software infrastructures—especially those spanning both control and data planes—this position offers end-to-end ownership of mission-critical components that power advanced networking capabilities and future-proof connectivity.

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 devices installed in diverse infrastructure.

What You'll Do :

Be the Architect Behind driving key platform enhancements with resiliency and scale

• Drive reliability and resiliency as part of the platform evolution
• Drive re-architecture & scale of various key components of the platform

Own Roadmap of the platform

Collaborate & Mentor

What Makes You a Great Fit

If you love creating a highly resilient platform that scales, automating everything, and working in a hybrid cloud + networking environment , we want to talk to you!

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.

Must-Have :

Reliability and Resilency Expertise – Strong experience in developing highly resilient and reliable systems.

Cloud & Hybrid SaaS Experience – Hands-on experience in developing service that are cloud-native (AWS / GCP) .

Kubernetes Mastery – Hands-on experience working in Kubernetes based environments.

L3-L7 Networking – Hands on experience working across the networking stack

Nice-to-Have :

Advanced Observability & Analytics Tools – Familiarity with modern time-series databases such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry to drive robust observability and actionable insights.

Security-First Mindset – Practical understanding of secure-by-design principles, especially as they apply to monitoring, alerting, and compliance in distributed environments.

Mentorship and Cross-Functional Collaboration – Proven ability to guide junior engineers and work effectively with SREs, application developers, and network engineers on complex platform initiatives.

Experience in High Availability & Disaster Recovery – Hands-on experience designing or migrating highly available systems, and implementing disaster recovery strategies across hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) – Familiarity with automating software delivery pipelines for rapid, reliable releases.

Performance Tuning & Profiling – Skills in profiling distributed systems and optimizing for latency, throughput, and resource efficiency at scale.

Open Source Contributions – Active participation or contributions to relevant open source projects within the cloud-native or networking community.

Qualifications

Environment

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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.

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 [HIDDEN TEXT].

Skills Required

Golang, Profiling, Prometheus, Grafana, Performance Tuning, Kubernetes