12 days ago

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Principal Software Engineer

$181k - $272k

F5

Seattle, WAUSRemote Hybrid

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.

Position Summary 

This position is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of CI/CD/CT of the product. Designs, develops, and maintains high-quality code for complex product components. Manages assigned projects independently and may serve as technical expert for issues associated with specific projects.

Primary Responsibilities  

  • Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving, and mitigating risk and communicating to stakeholders 
  • Provides technical solutions to detail certain aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework. 
  • Performs analysis to define design requirements for modification to existing tools, utilities, system structures, environments and provide technical input into project scope and estimating activities. 
  • Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes, and standards. 
  • Provides technical guidance to lower-level engineers, 
  • Assist Principal Engineers and Management with project scope. 
  • Consistently meet commitments. 
  • Assisting and driving customer solutions. 
  • Participates in hiring and onboarding process. 
  • Conducts presentations internally and externally. 
  • Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies. 
  • Performs other related duties as assigned. 

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. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  

  • Strong knowledge and extensive experience with relevant platform technologies  
  • 5+ years programming experience in CICD, Go, Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible. 
  • Must be a Subject Matter Expert in DevOps area. 
  • Knowledge of security practices in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with static and dynamic code analysis tooling
  • Expertise in security for APIs and microservices architecture
  • Experience with traffic processing products assessment
  • Demonstrated leadership role within project team and collaborate well with other teams. 
  • Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment. 
  • Development experience in object-oriented programming. 
  • Strong analytic / trouble-shooting skills. 
  • Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.  
  • Extensive knowledge of product life cycle.  
  • Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.   
  • Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material. 

Qualifications 

  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.

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: $181,774.00 - $272,660.00

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 accommodations@f5.com.