Principal Engineer
F5 Networks1 day ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$226k - $338k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deploy scalable features for enterprise AI control planes and data planes using Go, C, and Rust.
- Implement security controls, semantic policy enforcement, rate limiting, load distribution, and observability for high-throughput AI workloads and LLM pipelines.
- Build Kubernetes-native operators, custom resource definitions, and high-performance proxy plugins for multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, conduct architectural reviews, and drive code quality and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with product management and platform architects to refine specifications and deliver platform releases.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 12 years of software engineering experience building high-performance networking, API gateway, application delivery, distributed control plane, or cloud security infrastructure software.
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Go, C, or Rust.
- Experience with Kubernetes internals, container orchestration, and multi-cloud networking primitives including AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud.
- Understanding of the AI software development lifecycle, modern AI application platforms, traffic optimization, and enterprise security protocols.
- Ability to drive complex technical projects from concept through production deployment.
Benefits
- The posting mentions incentive compensation, bonuses, restricted stock units, and employee benefits.
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About F5 Networks
F5, Inc. builds application delivery and security products for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning on‑premises, cloud, and edge environments. It sells software, hardware appliances, and SaaS subscriptions for load balancing, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, and traffic management, with support services. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the public company (NASDAQ: FFIV) expanded its portfolio through acquisitions including NGINX and Shape Security.